About

Akash Kumar is a highly committed and result-oriented Senior Software Engineer at Shiprocket with over 5 years of relevant experience. He has a strong spirit of writing high-quality and maintainable code and has delivered complex Android and web applications using a variety of programming languages and technologies. Akash is proficient in several programming languages, including Kotlin, Java, PHP, XML, Javascript, HTML, and CSS. He is also well-versed in database management systems such as MySql, SQLite, and MariaDB, as well as cloud services like AWS and Firebase. He is experienced in using several design patterns, including MVC, MVP, and MVVM, and is skilled in unit and instrumentation testing, Git, LAMP Stack, Ajax, RxJava, RxAndroid, RestAPI, Retrofit, Room, and JSON. Akash has also worked with several tools, including Android Studio, PHPStorm, IntelliJ, and NetBeans, and follows object-oriented and functional programming methodologies. In his current role as a Senior Software Engineer at Shiprocket, Akash has developed multiple apps, two of which have over a million users. He has revamped the Shiprocket app, rewritten the whole app to include the latest tech and tools available in the market, created a completely new UI and UX in the app, and upgraded the app language from Java to Kotlin. He has also created a tool to generate app builds in the cloud and has been awarded Rockstart Rookie for his performance. Akash has also created backend APIs and integrated them into the app. Prior to his current role, Akash worked as a Full Stack Developer at Klickinvite - digital invitations for every occasion, where he developed the Klickinvite Android application from scratch. He implemented dynamic color theming of navigation according to the image, used RxJava for better thread management, Retrofit for API consumption, and Firebase Crashlytics for crash reporting. He also made the app fully multi-lingual (English and Hindi) for India-specific users and managed thousands of data efficiently without any lag. Akash also worked on several frontend and backend areas of Klickinvite, optimizing user experience and performance by lazy and defer loading, next-gen images with the fallback system, SQL query optimization, and implementing AES 256 bit CBC Encryption Algorithm for secure client-server communication. Akash holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from IIMT College of Engineering, Greater Noida, and has a strong tech stack that includes software engineering, Android, AWS, Kotlin, PHP