About

Akash Raj is a senior software engineer and product owner with over 7 years of experience in product ownership and front-end development. He is a Scrum Certified Product Owner and has experience in managing and maintaining product roadmaps, backlogs, and prioritizing backlog. As a developer, he has expertise in technologies such as HTML/CSS/LESS/SCSS, JavaScript/jQuery, and front-end frameworks and libraries. He is known for his knack for pixel-perfect development and has led teams in several projects. Akash started his career as a developer and has since moved towards leadership roles. He has been part of several successful and challenging projects, playing both developer and team lead roles. He values transparency, positive thinking, honesty, validating learning, sharing, and being receptive. His core knowledge areas include product ownership, backlog management, agile project management, technical leadership, and mentoring. Currently, Akash works as a Product Owner at Java R&D Pvt. Ltd. where he has completed his CSPO certification. His responsibilities include maintaining a prioritized backlog of feature ideas, leading a development team, producing specification documents, creating wireframes and mock-ups, collaborating with department leadership, conducting user research, and defining, monitoring, and analyzing key metrics for launched products/features. He has spearheaded a product feature delivery resulting in a $22 million revenue increment in just 45 days and led a 9-person product development team collaboration towards launching product solutions that are simple, delightful, and impactful. He has also delivered 5 new features on-time as per customer requirements, making a value to the company. Prior to joining Java R&D, Akash worked at Inventech Info Solutions Pvt Ltd. as a Software Engineer and acted as an acting technical lead. He was directly involved with clients on requirements, designing, development, and testing. He also worked at Moonraft Innovation Labs as a Frontend Developer, working on various projects based on front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. He was a key player in the team and was in direct contact with clients. Akash holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Truba Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and completed his 10+2 from Delhi Public School. His tech stack includes Java, software engineering, front-end development, research scientist, Javascript, product management, test, and senior software engineering.