About

Akash Hegde is a proficient software engineer and co-founder of a stealth startup. He is currently building Toddlyy, a service that aims to make daycares reliable, accessible, and affordable. He has experience working as a software engineer for 1.5 years in the Investment Systems team at BlackRock, where he provided trading capabilities and decision support to portfolio managers. Akash is proficient in working with web frameworks like Django and Java Spring Boot, mobile frameworks like Android, and desktop development tools like Java Swings and C#. He is also skilled in working with relational databases. He is familiar with modern tools and environments like web services, version control systems, bug tracking systems, containerization platforms, etc. Akash holds a B.Tech in Computer and Communication Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology. He has a firm grasp of the concepts of Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, and Database Management. Akash is passionate about entrepreneurship and has been following the Indian startup ecosystem for more than half a decade. He is on a mission to make the world a better place to live in using technology. In his current role as co-founder of Toddlyy, Akash is exploring the daycare/childcare space and developing an app to help parents find and book slots in reliable and safe daycare facilities near them where they can drop their kids on an ad-hoc basis. He is also coordinating with teammates over business-plan, go-to-market strategy, logo design, tech, product, marketing, etc. He is building relationships with investors and founders over LinkedIn. Akash has also worked as an intern and analyst - software engineer at BlackRock, where he developed a workflow alerting infrastructure using Java Spring Boot, and conducted PoC on the cloud-data platform Snowflake, among other things. Overall, Akash Hegde is a strong engineering professional with relevant experience of 2.86 years. He has a diverse skill set and a passion for entrepreneurship, making him a valuable asset to any team.