# Akhilesh NS > SWE @Reddit | MSE SS @CMU Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akhileshns 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. Although now, I work almost entirely in JavaScript and it's associated frameworks (React, React Native, NodeJS & Electron). Lately I've been very interested in the cross-section between software engineering & programming languages. Having worked on a lot of products in the past, I've come to realize that ensuring good and safe practices in software development can be a tedious task especially when working in a team. So I believe that one of the best ways to enforce good standards in software engineering is via the programming language itself (kind of like how TypeScript brought type safety to JavaScript). So I hope to have the opportunity to work with a company that will allow me to bring my unique viewpoints and perspectives in finding new and innovative solutions to various software problems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2023 – Present | Jersey City, New Jersey, United States ### Software Engineering Intern @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2022 – Jan 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.) ### Software Engineer @ Thinkify Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 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 ### Frontend Engineer @ Quicko Jan 2020 – Jan 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 ### Frontend Engineer @ B. M. S. College of Engineering Jan 2018 – Jan 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 ### Mobile Engineer @ B. M. S. College of Engineering Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Built two Java-based android applications for the college: One for presenting the college’s exam time table to parents and students and one for the college’s technical fest, PhaseShift 2018 • Coordinated both applications’ communication and interaction with the college’s MySQL server which was used as the Backend for the applications • Created an animation using Adobe After Effects and programmed it into the application by creating a website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Lottie and then embedding the website using Android WebView ### Mobile Engineer @ ModeliCon InfoTech Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Created an android and IOS application using React Native for the company that is used to remotely voice control a drone • Setup TCP and UDP Sockets to communicate with the drone and to stream the drone's camera output to the app so it may be viewed • Created a custom library that ports the PocketSphinx Java SDK to React Native so as to enable offline voice recognition in the app • Setup a custom voice module that uses Google Speech-to-text when online and PocketSphinx when offline to improve overall voice recognition capabilities of the app • Worked on optimizing the voice conversion results by using a custom parser which saw an accuracy and performance improvement of command detection by more than 50% ### Mobile Engineer @ Applied Inventions India Pvt Ltd Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Worked on creating a local SQLite Database for the company’s Java based android application and synchronizing the local database with it’s cloud based Oracle MySQL counterpart • Added features such as PDF generation, Graphs and Statistics generation • Programmed a majority of the User Interface for the application using XML and Java and was tasked with troubleshooting any and all bugs that arose throughout the life cycle of the application ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Information Science/Studies B. M. S. College of Engineering Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akhilesh-ns-889899195 --- Source: https://flows.cv/akhileshns JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akhileshns/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23