Akshay Nanda

• Developed technical requirement documentation for new software products.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to transform client requirements into turnkey solutions.
• Researched and adopted new technologies to add value to existing offerings.
• Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
• Drove technical initiatives for large enterprise systems to align with long-term business strategies.
• Presented business leaders with ROI estimations to drive project planning.
• Authored best practices documentation for use in new personnel onboarding processes.
• Developed network and system architecture according to business needs.
• Educated stakeholders on data protection tactics to reduce breaches.
• Developed, implemented and maintained data analytics protocols, standards and documentation.
• Guided teams during continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies.
• Liaised with third parties to respond to security events and understand threat landscape.
• Worked with business partners to balance requirements, security and risk reduction.
• Contributed to internal activities for overall process improvements, efficiencies and innovation.
• Participated in SOC2 audits for large enterprise systems.

In the current role, I lead technology team @ Hirexp/ Amara and my key responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining complete suite of web applications to automate different HR Processes including Application tracking system (Hirexp), Candidate Onboarding tool (Onboard by hirexp),Candidate experience tool integrated with cloud telephony IVR's(Twilio/Whatsapp Business/ Knowlarity)(CanXP), and AI-enabled employee engagement chatbot (Amara) used by 100+ medium and large Enterprises present in 7 countries.
• Designing application architecture optimized for load, scalability, stability, and security (following all OWASP web application security standards).
• Leading organization-wide technology strategy development.
• Managing team of 20+ software developers to lead front/back end server-side development.
• Deciding technologies, developing skills in team, removing bottlenecks, and involving test teams.
• Calculating economic costs and benefits of various engineering options.
• Building inter-team collaboration guidelines to reduce dependence and redundancy and accelerate development efforts by integrating diverse developer voices.
• Stayed up to date on modern practice advances while applying best-in-class software development with existing technology.

• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
• Applied change control best practices to Django development processes to provide software enhancements without disruptions for end users.
• Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
• Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
• Monitored and maintained operational readiness of all middleware applications.
• Consulted regularly with internal customers on application development project status, new project proposals and software-related technical issues.

• Lead Engineer in Enterprise Delivery Team
• Lead Channel Partner Delivery Program and managed 50+ channel partners.
• Organized and conducted training sessions for technical teams of different channel partners providing them detailed knowledge of IVRS system, External API integration , Database Integration and CRM Integration.
• Managed AWS servers owned by Enterprise Delivery Team.
• Implemented various AWS API Gateways and Lambda Functions.
• Worked closely with clients to establish specifications and system designs.

• Prepared and submitted reports and other documentation to assist development team members.
• Investigated technical challenges to identify root cause and provide expedient resolutions.
• Partnered with company mentor to learn best practices in software design.
• Collaborated with other developers to identify and alleviate number of bugs and errors in software.