Summary
Akshit Mahajan is an Applied Research Engineer with 12 years’ experience building cloud-native, low-latency and resilient systems across the Java/JVM ecosystem, Go, Python and Flutter. He has driven scalable IoT platform features at Cisco that supported ~160 million connected devices and now focuses on applied research and prototyping at Stanford Innovations. Deeply interested in distributed systems, containerization and security, he designs enterprise-grade microservices and platform components with an emphasis on availability and performance. Beyond backend systems, he rapidly prototypes IoT solutions using Raspberry Pi and drone companion processors, blending hands-on hardware tinkering with production software. Based in Bengaluru and holding a computer engineering degree from Chitkara University, he combines pragmatic engineering discipline with a researcher’s curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MIT OCW EECE Undergrad + Grad Curriculum, Computer Science Engineering, MIT OCW EECE Undergrad + Grad Curriculum, Computer Science Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AISSE - All India Secondary School Examination, AISSE - All India Secondary School Examination at Central Board of Secondary Education
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering at Chitkara University
English, French, Hindi, Punjabi