About
I'm Akash — a software engineer with around 10 years of professional experience across adtech, fintech, privacy compliance, and cloud infrastructure, in the US, UK, and India. Currently a Staff Software Engineer at Wise.
Outside of work, I build side projects — useful tools for myself or experiments. I write occasionally on Substack.
I'm also a musician. I play guitar and piano and dabble in music production. My originals and covers are on YouTube .
I stream on Twitch at taxbros — mostly playing Dota 2. Gaming content also lives on YouTube.
Experience
Solving problems in Global KYC and Onboarding Squad.
Enabled push on green across the platform for improved developer productivity - automated regression testing on stage and auto promotion of changes across environments.
Designed and implemented multi currency accounts infrastructure and services. Built nvest, the stock trading platform on nsave.
Migrated the cluster workflow architecture from poll-based to event-based, improving cluster
start times by over 60%.
Improved Cluster Start Time
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Enhanced EMR Troubleshooting
Canary Privacy
Co-founded a privacy compliance startup during my time at Cornell. Secured $100K in pre-seed
investment and won the
Cornell Startup Award.
Built tools to simulate user activity on client websites for cookie compliance and page change detection.
Built the Coaching vertical on the learning platform. Revamped the internal workflow platform,
improving execution times by 75%.
Built the ad targeting platform to store demographic data and expose customer segments for
campaign creation. Enabled real-time ad retargeting and built the forecasting system powering
campaign creation.
Education
Cornell Tech, USA
BITS Pilani, India