Roy Akash is a software engineer with seven years of experience, currently building Copilot Chat for Office 365 in Microsoft's Search Assistant and Intelligence group after a rapid promotion to L60. He combines strong academic foundations from IIT Madras and hands-on production experience from an Amazon SDE internship to deliver high-performance backend features and platform migrations. His background in theoretical computer science and graph algorithms informs pragmatic designs for distributed systems and scalable APIs. At IIT Madras he also led large TA teams and taught advanced programming and security courses, demonstrating both technical depth and instructional leadership. Notably, he shipped production features at Amazon and earned a Microsoft Spot Award for engineering excellence, reflecting a track record of turning research-driven insights into deployed systems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
High School and Senior High School, Fundamental Sciences, High School and Senior High School, Fundamental Sciences at Barasat Mahatma Gandhi Memorial High School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.94 / 10.0, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, 8.94 / 10.0 at Government College Of Engineering and Ceramic Technology
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