Akshay Nair

Akshay Nair

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Masters Student in Software Engineering actively looking for Jan 2025 SWE Full time roles | Full stack engineering | Typescript | Java | NodeJS

  • Education

    • Pune University

      2011 - 2015
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
    • Rajhans Vidyalaya

      2008 - 2010
      High School Diploma Science
    • UpGrad.com

      2023 - 2024
      Executive PGP in Full Stack Engineering Computer Software Engineering

      Online Course in Full stack web development with a focus on fundamental Java, HTML, CSS, and JS.

    • Pace University - Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems

      2023 - 2025
      Master's degree Computer Software Engineering
  • Experience

    • HSBC

      Aug 2015 - Jun 2023

      Brief: Subject matter expert on front-end development for web and mobile, contributing to more than 500 releases and 3 projects• Managed, and led improvements to agile delivery efficiencies, 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• Led 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 JavaScript deployment report web-app reducing analysis by 30%• Abstracted Java complexities of hybrid cloud platform, reducing the training period of new developers by 2-3 weeks Show less : Developed over 10 RESTful web applications using Java, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, with Typescript, and JavaScript• 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• Developed 5 features for a hybrid mobile application with Ionic as part of a social impact project Show less

      • Software Engineer - 3 (Product management | Front-End Architecture | Technical Documentation)

        Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
      • Software Engineer - 2 (Front-End Developer| DevOps)

        Apr 2018 - May 2020
      • Software Engineer - 1 (Web application development)

        Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
      • Software Engineering Trainee

        Aug 2015 - Jul 2016
    • SPEAKHIRE

      Jun 2024 - now
      Software Intern

      Brief: Re-architected features for a social education platform • Designed and built 3 data intensive administrative features in a React application with Material UI• Redesigned authenticated REST API and consequently linked NoSQL database design to enable better cohesion• Co-ordinated agile planning project and technical planning for 8 new features enabling quicker turnaround time

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Master of Science

      Pace University
      May 2025
    • INSPIRE Program

      Pace University
      Oct 2023
      View certificate certificate
    • Executive PG Programme in Software Development

      International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
      Jul 2024
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Akshay Nair
      Group Level - Nominated for Innovation Star HSBC Mar 2022 Nominated for innovations to rapidly scale products and enhance delivery quality.
    • Awarded to Akshay Nair
      Department - Pioneer of the quarter HSBC Apr 2021 for developing horizontal Scaling for the Banking platform to scale into other brands.
    • Awarded to Akshay Nair
      Company award - "RISE" HSBC May 2018 for development of standardized content management solution
    • Awarded to Akshay Nair
      Department award - “Pat on the back” HSBC Mar 2018
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Software Engineer

      Issued by Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) on Jun 2018
      Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)Associated with Akshay Nair