About

Akshay Chopra is a highly skilled Software Engineer at Microsoft with a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. With a keen interest in Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Applied Machine Learning, Akshay has gained extensive experience in various programming languages such as C++, Go, Java, Python, C#, SQL, HTML, CSS, JS, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Git, Source Depot, Kusto, Visual Studio, RESTful APIs, Automated Testing, and Unit Testing. Currently working in the Applications Group of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations at Microsoft, Akshay is responsible for developing and testing Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations application, a cloud-based ERP system for finance, accounting, and other functions. He has also worked on converting and optimizing direct SQL logic to framework code, which helped in improving budget planning update operation performance from Excel by 96%. Additionally, Akshay has extensively worked to make the Revenue Recognition module robust and performant by fixing critical issues. He has also guided and helped vendor teams by doing code review and participated in weekly on-call rotation to help customers facing critical business blocking issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Akshay worked as a Software Engineer at Newgen Software, where he created ASP.Net websites, database design, and window/web services for the Cheque Clearing process. He also worked on the integration of the Cheque Clearing system with core banking systems like Finacle. As a Software Engineering Intern at Newgen Software, Akshay worked on the ‘Image Based Cheque Clearing System’ Demo for Sharjah Islamic Bank and provided standard Cheque Truncation System software for automated cheque clearance. Akshay's education history includes a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from The Northcap University. He also attended Delhi Public School Mathura Road. With a tech stack that includes Software Engineering, SQL, test, Scikit, ML, Pandas, MySQL, Python, Java, dotNET, ASP.NET, Integration, and Web, Akshay has relevant experience of 3.53 years.