Akshay Patade is a versatile Full Stack Software Engineer with a robust background in developing innovative web applications and microservices.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
New York, NY
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
New York City Metropolitan Area
● Product owner for an open marketplace of Progressive Web Apps (Flask MVC, React, AWS, MongoDB), empowering developers to bypass traditional app stores and enables a single codebase for deployment across all platforms
● Implemented product listing, categories and detail page flows (React and Material UI), implementing semantic search using MongoDB aggregation pipeline for efficient app searches and lazy loading mechanism that improved page load times by 40%
● Utilized AWS Cognito with Python Flask for user login, registration and access control to ensure secure client validation and handling
● Designed and implemented Redis caching for frequently accessed data, such as product detail pages, product reviews and blog content, which helped reduce server response time from 400ms to 50ms
● Built a backend service using (Flask, MongoDB) that enables developers to boost their app listings, providing functionality to promote listings to the top for increased visibility in the marketplace
● Developed and implemented a JavaScript service worker to enable offline functionality on mobile devices, using caching strategies to store key assets and configuring specific offline features to ensure seamless user experience even without internet connectivity
● Executed dockerized containers for staging and production environments from scratch on AWS ECS to enable streamlined collaboration, and configured SSL certificates using Nginx and Certbot
● Created automated CI/CD pipelines using Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Actions, and AWS reducing deployment time from 15 min to 6 min
2022 — 2023
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Enhanced student learning by creating assignments on topics such as stock predictions, recommendation engines and fraud detection, offering individualized Python tutoring, and designing exams for 80+ students per semester
2019 — 2021
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
● Engineered applications using microservices (Django MVVM, AWS) to offer investors a comprehensive portfolio view, allowing them to manage investments across diverse alternative asset classes
● Implemented an asynchronous investment portfolio PDF reporting system using Celery and RabbitMQ, which helped reduced processing time for automated report generation and email distribution by 60%
● Optimized data fetching with prefetch_related and select_related which improved query efficiency and reduced the report generation time by 40%
● Created interactive data visualization dashboards such as cash flow analysis, order management and performance tracking with React.js and TypeScript, for private equity, real estate and hedge funds asset classes that increased portfolio returns by 5%
● Led a seamless migration of the Order Placement Service, a critical application enabling investors to buy and sell orders, from onpremises to AWS EKS, achieving 99.99% uptime
● Implemented an ETL process to extract data from Nasdaq Data Link alternative investments and persist in Citi’s CGWI
● Utilized Jest and Pytest to achieve 80%+ coverage by following Test-Driven Development
● Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop POCs for private debt and commodities asset classes, aggregating information from diverse sources like spot prices, futures, and derivatives, creating micro front end dashboards to explore new markets
2017 — 2017
2017 — 2017
Mumbai Area, India
Created a java application which automatically send an email to an employee having his/her birthday and it also notifies other employees present in company.
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS
Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering