_{Software Engineer | Software Architect | email: akshay.v.nair@pace.edu}

Nerd. But I really like building digital tech projects that can scale. I've helped build a couple so far as a software engineer. In those projects I built a custom CLI, a UI library, and overall helped out a team of 500 developers built out a product that is used by 30 million users.

• 🌍  Nowadays, I'm leading efforts at a Speakhire, a non-profit, working on my software architectural chops and helping them digitize their processes.
• 🖥️  See my portfolio at
  • Designed the software system for a digital tutoring service. Docs: https://akshayvijaynair.github.io/music-academy-docs/
  • Designed the quality assurance systems for an iOS healthcare applications. Doc: https://akshayvijaynair.github.io/poredocs/
  • Published a paper on small-scale social media design.

• Collaborated with 4 clients to design and engineer 9 features with React, Express, PostgreSQL and Azure Services
• Redesigned and migrated PostgreSQL database to new scalable structure to enabling faster feature rollout by 4x
• Led architecture discussions and design review for the application, aligning with business priorities within 4 weeks of joining
• Redesigned Azure architecture reducing costs by 30% and improved performance by 25% for a SaaS product built on Typescript

• Managed, and led long term technical strategies, and software development of 50 teams for a digital B2C platform
• Facilitated highly collaborative environment with technical documentation on building highly usable UIs improving SLA by 50%
• Enhanced existing patterns of MVC frameworks like Angular, improving CI/CD workflow success rate by more than 30%
• Automated developer version control workflow by developing a custom NodeJS CLI, reducing refactoring time by 200 hours
• Owned development for a WCAG2.1 accessible and secure UI libraries and abstractions reducing team efforts by 80-100 hours
• Spearheaded development of new middleware solutions with Webpack optimizing frequent release readiness of sites by 50%
• Took the initiative in identifying issues by engineering a real time deployment reporting web-app reducing analysis by 30%
• Developed Java libraries for AWS-Adobe cloud platform, reducing developmental complexity for new applications by 2-3 weeks

• Led efforts to abstract complexities of on-premise Adobe cloud infrastructure reducing development effort by 80 hours
• Spearheaded adoption of Adobe CMS, and for TypeScript programming for 3 projects driving developer ease of use
• Pioneered the configuration patterns for browser projects, enabling teams to rapidly scale to 30 markets over a 3-year period
• Led a weekly forum collating internal workflow issues and prototyped 12 solutions that improved release readiness of teams

• Associate Degree In Software Engineering from IIIT-B