Akash Prasher

Senior Software Engineer

New Delhi, IN.

About

Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and scaling production applications across frontend, backend, and full-stack systems. Experienced with React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, FastAPI, and TypeScript, with hands-on work in API design, scalable architecture, asynchronous processing, payments, caching, and AI-powered workflows. Built systems handling ₹30+ crore in transaction value, improved user retention by 20% through product-flow redesign, and optimized high-traffic services for greater scalability and efficiency.

Work

Jumbo

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Senior Software Engineer

Delhi, India

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Summary

Optimized high-traffic backend/frontend flows, payment systems, and database scaling for Jumbo's core application.

Highlights

Improved high-traffic product flows across frontend and backend by splitting a large page API into focused endpoints for banners, matches, upcoming events, and joining flows.

Introduced Redis caching and CDN delivery alongside frontend optimizations to reduce backend/database pressure and improve traffic-handling capacity.

Designed extensible checkout and payment flows supporting multiple gateways and an in-app wallet, with payment infrastructure handling ₹30+ crore in transaction value.

Inspect Element

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Software Engineer

Remote, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Summary

Built and scaled SaaS platform features, asynchronous AI-powered workflows, and fullstack integrations across Next.js and FastAPI.

Highlights

Built and enhanced SaaS features across Next.js and FastAPI, including dashboards, scheduling, revenue tracking, role-based access, notifications, and booking workflows.

Owned an end-to-end PDF analysis flow spanning frontend upload, S3 storage, asynchronous processing, polling, AI analysis, and report delivery.

Implemented product features across web interfaces and backend APIs, including payments, QR-based access, maps, administrative workflows, and long-running processing states.

Improved application reliability and UX through asynchronous workflows, debounced search, loading states, encryption, privacy-compliant deletion, and regional permissions.

Collaborated across product, design, and engineering to take features from requirements through API, business logic, UI implementation, QA, and reusable components.

Grantit

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Software Engineer/Full-stack

Remote, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Summary

Redesigned core application features to optimize user retention and built tools to streamline developer workloads.

Highlights

Improved user retention by 20% by redesigning the loan journey across frontend and backend, allowing users to preserve progress despite missing documents.

Refactored loan-application logic around flexible document submission and extensible business rules, supporting multiple loan types and future product expansion.

Implemented database changes, backend logic, and frontend state handling to preserve submitted information, manage document requirements, and reduce application drop-offs.

Built a full-stack CMS enabling the marketing team to manage app banners independently, saving developers 15% of their time.

IBM

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Associate System Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Summary

Developed frontend features and supported maintenance processes for key client-facing dashboards.

Highlights

Implemented dashboard features across frontend and application logic, translating business requirements into maintainable product changes.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve application usability, performance, and behavior.

Supported QA, maintenance, and iterative enhancements across evolving application requirements.

Education

Chandigarh University

Chandigarh, Punjab, India
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Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science Engineering

Languages

English

Hindi

Skills

Backend Development

Node.js, FastAPI, REST APIs, WebSockets.

Databases & Storage

MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Firestore.

Frontend Development

React, React Native, Next.js, Expo, TypeScript, JavaScript, Flutter.

Integrations & APIs

Google Maps SDK, AI Integrations.

Projects

AI Resume Analyzer

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Summary

Built an AI-powered resume analyzer using Next.js, FastAPI, and OpenAI API to evaluate ATS compatibility and generate actionable keyword suggestions.

Conduit - Blogging App

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Summary

MERN full-stack web app enables user authentication, article creation, and editing. Users can follow each other, generating customized feeds.

URL and QR Generator

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Summary

Express.js web app utilizes MongoDB (Atlas) for a URL Shortener and QR Code Generator. It converts long URLs to unique short ones and generates QR codes for easy access.