Hey I'm Akhilesh. I'm a student of Carnegie Mellon University's MSE-SS program but you can probably already see that on my profile. I've been developing websites and mobile applications since the 9th grade, back when websites used XHTML & Android apps were made with Eclipse.

2023 — NowReddit, Inc.Software Engineer

2023 — Now

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

2022 — 2022Reddit, Inc.Software Engineering Intern

2022 — 2022

Remote

Collaborated with a cross-functional team to develop and release a highly requested feature (Modnotes) to additional platforms (Modmail)

Undertook a number of bug fixes, and devised ideas aimed at improving the usability and maintainability of various projects (Ex: TypeScript support, GraphQL Apollo migration, etc.)

2020 — 2021Thinkify LabsSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Integrated img.ly, setup serverless functions using firebase and created deployment pipelines using fastlane & github actions for the Intro app at Lotuseagle

Created various utility scripts & performed automation tests using WebdriverIO on the Netskope security cloud software improving overall safety and manageability of the software

Created a website for DGraph Labs using React, Redux & Slash GraphQL to automate employee management

Created a website which enables network security by proxy using NodeJS, React & Docker

2020 — 2020QuickoFrontend Engineer

2020 — 2020

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Transitioned the company's primary blog into three wordpress based websites, hosted on a linux server, for improved SEO and usability

Setup each of the three websites with custom wordpress themes written in PHP, SASS, JavaScript & Jquery to enable a unique look & feel to the blogs

Created a custom comments system and navigation system for each of the websites and launched a Node server on Heroku to enable email subscriptions with SendGrid

2018 — 2019B. M. S. College of EngineeringFrontend Engineer

2018 — 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on the Design and development of an ERP system using React and Firebase that automates the process of managing attendance, scheduling events, distributing marks etc and thus improved productivity by a huge margin

Worked on the Design and development of a software using React which allows teachers to perform analysis on students’ marks and calculate statistics such as course attainment in a matter of a few minutes instead of hours

Built a website using React for the E-Governance cell of BMSCE and hosted it on Netlify

Education

2021 — 2022

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

Master's degree

2021 — 2022

2016 — 2020

B. M. S. College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

2016 — 2020

Experience+

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor of Engineering - BE