Akash Hamirwasia

I’m passionate about building innovative products on the web with great design. I’m keen to work with collaborative teams building products that solve real problems.

Experience

RazorpayFrontend Engineer

June 2022 - Present

As the first engineer on the Razorpay Rize team, I played a pivotal role in building the product from the ground up to serve over 4,000+ startup founders with multiple product features on founder dashboard, and the admin portal.

  • Led the efforts towards engineering excellence by increasing the E2E test coverage from 0% to over 80%, better error monitoring, server-side data fetching for improved load times and SEO rankings.
  • Developed a new feature for Rize on the Razorpay Payments dashboard for FTX event launch in under 3 weeks.

RazorpaySoftware Development Engineering Intern

Jan 2022 - June 2022

Akamai TechnologiesSoftware Engineering Intern

May 2021 - July 2021

Worked in Developer productivity team to develop a multi-agent architecture for a self-service AI chatbot using Python & RASA.

smallcaseFrontend Engineering Intern

May 2020 - Aug 2020

Worked on the front end of the smallcase web investment platform built using Next.js, React.js ecosystem, JavaScript.

Education

PES UniversityB.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering

Aug 2018 - Aug 2022

CGPA - 9.77 / 10.0. Graduated as a gold medalist with 9th rank in the entire CSE department.

Projects

Slant itProduct to create professional SaaS launch trailers

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  • Created, launched, and monetized this product with 100+ users and over $1,000 in revenue(first 6 months) as a solo creator.
  • Built the video editor and export pipeline using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Three.js, WebGL, WebAssembly, WebCodecs.

BlazeFast peer-to-peer(P2P) file sharing on the web

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  • Frontend is built as a PWA with Preact.js and WebTorrent. Backend uses WebSockets and an Express server on Node.js.
  • #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt. DigitalOcean is sponsoring this project, 2,100+ stars on GitHub and 300 weekly users.

VyaakaranToolkit and visualizer for Automata and Parsers

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Created an IDE + compiler for a domain-specific language in TypeScript. Launched it at IndiaFOSS 2.0, with positive feedback.

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • CSS
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • PostgreSQL
  • Framer Motion
  • Three.js
  • Playwright
  • Python
  • Go
  • Docker
  • Git
  • UI Design
  • Developing DSLs
  • Public speaking

Achievements