# Aakash Gandhi

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aakashgandhi

I am a software engineer with a decade of experience leading teams in the financial and insurance industries. I have expertise in Python, Javascript/Typescript, Ruby, and native mobile development, and I have demonstrated history of quickly learning the the right tools for the job and executing on project plans.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote

### Senior Software Engineer @ Better.com
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Decoupled access to internal employee data from our monolithic express application, improving reliability and scalability of our internal tooling.

### Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead - Oscar for Business @ Oscar Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Tech lead for the Oscar for Business engineering team, responsible for building the enrollment experience of small businesses to our health insurance platform. Currently serving four different state markets, we also are in charge of preparing the company to launch the small business product in new states.

### Software Engineer - Member Experience @ Oscar Health
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
Worked on the iOS app for the first few months, before switching gears and learning Android. Helped create a new version of our mobile API, migrating it from a legacy Django app to a standalone Flask app. Built an in house push notification system so Oscar can migrate off Parse before support is pulled.

### Software Engineer - Bloomberg Government @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Worked on the News and Tools team, which owned a large part of the Bloomberg Government web product. Gained experience in AngularJS rewriting the event directory page. Experimented in creating a cross platform app in Titanium, before settling on building an native iOS app written in Swift.

### Software Engineer - Bloomberg Wealth @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Worked on the Wealth Infrastructure Team, building out the BloombergBlack web product. Experienced all parts of the software stack: from front-end work, written in Rails/haml/JavaScript, to back-end work, written in Java. Also gained significant experience building the BloombergBlack iOS app.

### Global Middle Office Intern @ Bank of America
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Worked with the CVA (credit valuation adjustment) team and investigated data issues on a daily basis. Was responsible for aggregating data sets from various sources and sending out a report to traders. Proved vital in starting a daily P&L report for a group of trades valued at more than $11B.


## Education
### Master of Business Administration - MBA
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Science in Bachelor of Arts, General Engineering, Economics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agandhi4

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Last updated: 2026-03-22