# Akshit Annadi

> Software Engineer at Plaid

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshit

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Credit ML Products @ Plaid
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Building Credit ML products at Plaid!

### Software Engineer, Credit @ Plaid
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, United States

### CS61B(Data Structures) Undergraduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA
- Lead weekly lab sections of 30 students, helping them implement data structures, graph algorithms, and sorting algorithms through rigorous Java assignments
- Teach weekly discussion sections, allowing students to practice concepts from lecture in a collaborative setting
- Hold weekly office hours, giving personal and specific assistance with class material and projects

### CS61B(Data Structures) Course Tutor @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
- Led small tutoring sections of 4-6 students, supplementing and reinforcing the data structures and algorithms from their coursework
- Worked with my peers to create new tutoring worksheets on graph and sorting algorithms

### Software Engineer Intern @ Plaid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
- Webhooks: Added webhooks to Plaid’s UK payment product, allowing clients to receive notifications when the status of a payment that they initiated has changed
- Institution Downtime: Collected downtime information from UK financial institutions and displayed it in the Plaid dashboard using Node and React.js, so clients could see when service was impacted for each institution
- Demo: Created an end to end demo application, featuring the Plaid Payment Initiation product, for testing and sales enablement using React.js/Node

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Berkeley RISE Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Tune: Created a React.js dashboard for Tune, an open source library for distributed hyperparameter tuning built on the Ray framework, which allowed users to see tuning trial parameters and results in an intuitive UI

### Software Engineer Intern @ Braintree
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area
- Created real-time data pipelines that stream merchant data from internal applications to a service that aggregates and cleans the data using Apache Kafka
- Built a GraphQL API to provide merchant transaction and business data to internal clients
- Expanded a service that sends merchant descriptor data to external partners to include international merchants using Ruby/Rails

### Software Development Intern @ Starbutter AI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
- Built an internal keyword analysis tool that aggregates, clusters, and returns keyword data using AWS Chalice, Lambda, and S3
- Enabled users to query the company’s financial chatbots for insurance rates and quotesin real-time on the Actions on Google and Alexa platforms
- Developed a React widget to integrate chatbots into third party sites using the Dialogflow API

### Software Development Intern @ BottlesTonight
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Enabled users to make club reservations in the company's web application using React.js/ Redux
- Designed and built a portal for club hosts and managers to manage customer reservations using React.js/Redux
- Created endpoints in a RESTful API that allowed client applications to access reservation data

### Software Development Intern @ SaRA Health (Techstars '18)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
-Helped implement features in the company's therapist portal to assign exercises and manage patients
-Implemented customer engagement features for patients to interact with their therapists including text reminders
-Participated in a development cycle with thorough bug fixing, testing, and code review

### Research Assistant @ UC Berkeley Molecular Cell Biomechanics Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, California
Used computational, protein modeling tools and bash scripting to investigate the role of mutation of the "Gle1" protein in human disease LCCS1

### Research Analyst @ The Whitney Lab, UC Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, California
Worked with Postdocs and other students at the Whitney Lab at UC Berkeley to design experiments that tested and analyzed serial dependence in the perception of faces using MATLAB


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshit-annadi
- Website: https://aannadi.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22