Khalid Akash
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolKhalid Akash is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience focused on backend, platform, and infrastructure engineering, currently driving reliability and scalability for Atlassian Access. He rose through multiple engineering levels at Atlassian—from intern to principal—building distributed, performant backend systems and introducing a GraphQL service to improve developer flexibility. Khalid combines strong academic grounding (MS and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers) with hands-on optimizations and tooling improvements that have repeatedly boosted performance and developer productivity. Comfortable in AWS microservice environments and polyglot stacks, he also has a history of teaching and communicating complex technical topics to both engineers and students. An observant problem-solver, he pairs production-driven engineering with a knack for documenting migration strategies and performance trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University–New BrunswickAtlantic City High School
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (20)
javalin9
rest-api8
kotlin8
jetty8
servlet8
java8
heap6
javafx6
tab-panel6
multidimensional-arrays6
constructor6
web-framework3
connections1
green-threads1
twitch1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AkashWorld/VirtualLogicLabs
Feb 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:1 release, 94 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
AkashWorld/EyeTouch-Braille-Encoder
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 PRs, 38 pushes, 9 branches in 8 months
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