Akshya Raghavan
Software Engineer at HashiCorp
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAkshya Raghavan is a software engineer based in Mountain View with four years of professional experience building backend systems and APIs at companies like HashiCorp and Dell EMC. He designs and implements RESTful services and backend features in Go and contributes to large open-source projects—most notably backend improvements to HashiCorp Vault around authentication, identity management, and logging. Akshya combines production-grade engineering (AWS, Docker, MongoDB) with a strong testing mindset that reduced customer escalations in previous roles. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from UT Arlington and has a history of automating tooling and visualization workflows that improved performance and operational efficiency. Notably, his open-source work touched security-sensitive functionality in a widely used secrets-management project, reflecting both domain knowledge and attention to reliability.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science/Studies, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Science/Studies at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMasters, Computer Science, 3.875/4.00, Masters, Computer Science, 3.875/4.00 at The University of Texas at Arlington
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Github Skills (11)
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
api10
apidoc10
hashicorp-vault10
security9
configuration-management9
logging8
identity-management8
devops7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vault
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:325 reviews, 307 commits, 380 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Akshya primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the HashiCorp Vault project. They implemented and modified core features related to configuration, activity logging, user authentication, and identity management. Their contributions include adding custom metadata fields to aliases, enhancing user lockout workflows, and addressing bugs in core system functions. They also made changes related to code scanning and permissions.
access-managementencryptionvaultgosecrets
disc/vault
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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