About

Akash Navani is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer currently working at Amazon. He has a wealth of experience in software engineering and research, having previously worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Software Engineer II at Khoros. During his time at Khoros, Akash was responsible for contributing to the Community Analytics platform through full-stack development on the backend, databases, UI, and CI/CD pipeline following Agile practices. He also developed middle tier RESTful APIs and microservices in Java, which were deployed and maintained on AWS. Additionally, he built data transformers for a Spark batch processor to process Raw Event logs into actionable Activity documents. Akash holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which he is due to complete in December 2022. He also has a B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and an M.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, as well as a High School diploma from Delhi Public School - Mathura Road, New Delhi. Akash is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Java, AWS, Spark, CI/CD, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, Microservices, UI, and Backend. He has 2.18 years of relevant experience in the industry and is highly motivated to continue developing his skills and knowledge.