# Akshay Narkhede

> Software Engineer @ Brico | Building 0-​>1। Founding Team at Financepeer (Google Incubated) | MSCS @ IUB

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshaynarkhede

Experience in building first financial products.

Master's in CS at Indiana University Bloomington. Passionate about building impactful products.

⚡Product Owner: Led & launched across Finance, Edtech & OTT platforms, growing user base to 300k+ and driving $10M+ monthly business growth. (Pioneered as first employee at Impactp2p & Edinfinity)

⚡Machine Learning: Contributed to a 2-year project using NLP models (TF-IDF, GLOVE, BERT) for sales planning & system integration.

⚡Technical Expertise: Web Dev, Mobile Dev, Data Analysis. Streamlined workflows, saving stakeholders 150+ hours/quarter.

⚡Awards: Google Launchpad Accelerator (Top 10 India 2019), Smart India Hackathon (Ministry of India, 2017).

Fast learner capable of wearing many hats with a positive can-do attitude, willing to work hard and do whatever it takes to get the job done.

See my portfolio: https://akshay-narkhede.netlify.app/

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Brico
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software and Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ Future Wonder
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Bloomington, Indiana, United States
• R&D: NLP integration for sales planning of 2yr ML project (Jupyter, Word2Vec / TF-IDF / GLOVE/ FastText) which increased text-matching accuracy for targeted grant decisions. 
• Led entire company infra migration (Bitbucket → GitLab), improved code management, development workflow & CI/CD (Netlify). 
• Enhanced and reviewed web/finance code issues (ReactJS, JavaScript, Python). Streamlined web pages to Tailwind CSS for maintainability and future development.

### Founding/Lead Software Engineer @ Financepeer
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Pioneered as the first employee, product owner for impactp2p and edinfinity, driving the product's vision with CXO's mentorship, and overseeing successful launches as tech team scaled to 30+ members.

• Innovation & Efficiency: Spearheaded MVT database architecture, increasing data processing speed by 40% and enabling $100M+ transactions.

• Strategic Product Development: Collaborated with product team to design, analyze, and strategize product & customer flow. Validated new functionalities and estimated development effort.

### Full Stack Developer @ Financepeer
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai Area, India
Project - Impactp2p (https://impactp2p.com/), is a p2p lending and borrowing platform designed to address the financial needs of self-employed, salaried individuals through a highly secure and digital medium.

•Built Impactp2p (P2P lending/borrowing) product from scratch (KYC, bank/credit score integration, custom scoring algorithms & dashboards) using ReactJS, JavaScript & Python (Django MVT & REST Framework) serving 300k+ users.
• Developed proprietary financial algorithms (auto-invest, portfolio management, liquidity) for investor & wealth management and partners user journey. Processed > $100 Million transactions.
• Engineered core features for accrual loan system (Python, Celery) for amortized EMIs, penalty schedules, revenue management, taxation & logging which increased transactions processing efficiency by 80%.
• Optimized the business impacting algorithms such that it helped to reduce TAT from 2-3 minutes to under 100 milliseconds.
• Implemented caching & queuing mechanism using Celery, optimized SQL queries for the project.
• Created dashboards & tools for generating daily analysis reports that were needed by the operations team.

Project - Edinfinity (https://www.leo1.in/edinfinity/) is an educational content consumption platform where self-hosted content and business partner-hosted content are consumed using rewards management.


• Collaboratively built EdInfinity (educational video platform) from scratch w/ ReactJS, React Native & Python for partner videos and self-hosted videos UI/UX like Netflix using Tailwind CSS, CDN. 
• Engineered on-demand multi-resolution HLS streaming solution (Python, ReactJS) for EdInfinity smooth video playback using AWS Elemental MediaConvert, CloudFront, S3, cache resulting in > 60% reduction in resource load.

### Technical Intern @ FINANCEPEER
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mumbai Area, India
• Learned Django framework, ReactJS tech stack to create multiple UI dashboards and user flow.
• Worked on integration of social logins using Google/Facebook OAuth APIs along with saving the profile data in hosted PostgreSQL.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Indiana University Bloomington

### Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering

### Associate's degree in Electrical Maintainace
D. G. Ruparel College, Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshay-narkhede
- Portfolio: https://akshay-narkhede.netlify.app/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29