About

Akshay Patil is an accomplished Augmented Reality SDE II at Amazon, contributing to the world's most valuable brand. He is a full-stack web developer with over 3 years of experience in the latest technologies of Angular, React, Amazon Web Services, Node.js, and more. He possesses qualities of creativity, good communication skills, determination, innovation, and the ability to learn new things quickly. Akshay pursued his Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence from Northeastern University, where he also served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for various courses. He completed an internship and a co-op at NetApp and Amazon, respectively. As a Software Engineer, Akshay is often riveted in his personal projects, built to learn something new and improve the way we live. He has interests in volunteering, learning Spanish, and exploring Artificial Intelligence & Augmented Reality. At Amazon, Akshay has worked on various projects, including launching Dedicated 2nd Image Block AR Ingress, expanding AR ingress across all categories and locales, and broadening the top of the Augmented Reality funnel. He has also updated Design Your Room project components' tech from Filament to Babylon, promoted and dialed up Eyewear Virtual Try-On (VTO) AR ingress, and released ImageBlock AR ingress. Akshay's experience also includes working as a Full Stack SDE at Amazon, where he implemented multi-part upload with pre-signed URLs to parallelize chunk uploads, resolved SAS issues, and designed and documented HLDs. He has also revamped the entire codebase to abide by strict, no-tolerance check style policies, introduced Cypress as a robust testing tool, and laid out a roadmap for its incorporation into the product. Akshay's education includes a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from VJTI. He also attended PTVA's Sathaye College and R. N. Podar School. He is a Software Engineer with expertise in web and mobile development, Javascript, NodeJS, AngularJS, AWS, and testing. Akshay's relevant experience is 5.19 years.