# Akshat D.

> Software Engineer

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshatd

Full stack developer always looking to gain knowledge and experience in the latest technologies. In my free time, I enjoy keeping up with global news events and playing basketball and tennis.

Let's connect!

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Upstart
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Building HELOC offering

### Software Engineer @ OpenComp
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Atlassian
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Full Stack Software Engineer II on the Confluence Ecosystem Team @ Atlassian

### Software Engineer @ Atlassian
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full-stack Software Engineer on Atlassian Statuspage.
Tools used: React, GraphQL, Rails, Ruby, PostGRES, Javascript

### Consultant @ Valley Consulting Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley
Spring 2018
Client: Google Cloud
Role: Senior Consultant
Performed competitive industry analysis on Fortune Global 2000 Companies using AI/NLP tools including rigorous testing of said tools. Findings were decked and presented to the Google Cloud team. Also served as bridge between Project Leader and consultants, and assisted Project Leader with task planning and execution.

Fall 2017
Client: Google Maps
Role: Development Chair, Consultant
As consultant, performed competitive analysis of open source mapping apps and cartography principles for Google Maps. Conducted focus groups and surveyed 1000+ users to determine usage patterns and feature values to identify potential areas of improvement. Focused on user experience. Presented findings to senior Google UX researchers and Google Maps team. 
As Development Chair, created curriculum to develop and train 6 new consultants recruited that semester. Held excel workshops, resume critique workshops, decking workshops etc. to help consultants develop professionally and socially.

Spring 2017
Client: Square
Role: Consultant
As consultant on team of 6 (4 consultants, 1 advisor, 1 project leader), performed regression analyses on dataset of over 100,000+ entries using Excel. Applied takeaways to larger question to deliver final recommendations. Each analysis was decked and presented to the Square team. Client testimonial can be found at: https://vcg.berkeley.edu/services

Valley Consulting Group (VCG) is an on-campus tech consulting organization. We provide strategy consulting to top tech companies in the Bay Area.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Atlassian
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
SDE Intern on Statuspage.

Tools Used:
- Ruby
- Rails
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
- Grape API/Swagger Docs

### Software Engineering Intern @ SAP Ariba
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineering Intern on the Hana Platform Persistence team.

### Assistant Marketing Manager @ The Daily Californian
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, CA
Responsible for assisting with the hiring of new Associates. Tasked with overseeing the analysis of the campus wide Qualtrics survey and building a plan to implement changes described in the analysis of the data. 

Sep 2015 - May 2016: Marketing Associate
My role was to determine how to expand readership across the city of Berkeley. Played a major role in the creation of a Qualtrics survey distributed to the city of Berkeley, which was designed to target specific portions of Berkeley not reading the Daily Californian.

### Intern @ Cloudera
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto
I installed various OS'es on several Virtual Machines and remotely tested Cloudera's software on each OS for compatibility issues. I wrote bug reports and submitted them to my superiors for fixing. I designed the graphics for The Hadoop Applications Architecture Book, available at http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033196.do 
I also designed the website for the book.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Data Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Milpitas High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23