Akash Mehta

About Akash Mehta

Engineer, Coder, and now an Entrepreneur. I am experienced in Software Engineering through my Masters in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Boston University, and my 3 years stint in Cerner Corporation. A few years back, an idea came to me while on a walk with my partner Piyusha Gupta. This idea was very simple, I wished there was a way my life as a software engineer could be simplified. I didn\'t want to worry about the reporting requirements that came with my work, I didn\'t want to run after my manager whenever I wanted to know about testing requirements used by different teams. And I definitely wanted a clear way of knowing what was going on with my contributions after I had done my part and merged with the master. We discussed this in length and that evening, booked a ticket back home to India with a plan to become entrepreneurs. Our vision is to help every employee and employer simplify their work while knowing the benefits their contributions make to their companies and to support companies by minimizing the efforts required for all reporting and monitoring requirements.I hope to one day be an influencer in the Tech industry, and back the development of technologies that elevate the world we all share and love.

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Kaiziq

   Jul 2021 — Present · New Delhi, IN

   KaizIQ is a WhatsApp-enabled collaboration and Task Management tool designed for new-age businesses and industry leaders.It helps businesses to easily plan and delegate tasks, manage timelines, bring teams together, and monitor progress with alerts, dashboards, and reports. Businesses can effortlessly manage and track the status of all tasks and employees with our user-friendly platform and AI-powered WhatsApp BOT.As a co-founder, I wear multiple hats, the primary one is of a Product Architect, Technical Lead, and Full Stack Developer. So far, I have led a rotating team (of more than 35) to create an enterprise-level software. KaizIQ has pivoted 3 times – First, it was an SDLC automation tool, then, it was an Integration Analytics tool, and finally, it became a WhatsApp BOT-powered Project Management tool.KaizIQ has been developed in the micro-service architecture. The primary tech stack for KaizIQ is Java, ReactJs, and Oracle SQL with a peripheral tech stack of Springboot and RabbitMQ. It’s been deployed using Docker on Reserved Linux AWS servers, the access for which has been closely controlled by Security Groups. The domain and sub-domains are controlled via Route-53 and Load-balancers with HTTPS encryption. It has had modules that perform task management, ticketing (separate portals for employees and clients), email notifications, and a WhatsApp BOT that can be used to control the entire application. Throughout its lifetime, I have integrated KaizIQ with multiple third-party tools personally and through my team – WhatsApp, Open AI (Chat GPT), Github, Email Providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Custom Company Emails), Postman, Jira, Clickup and AWS Servers. As the primary support personnel, I have had many nights and weekends spent resolving the unfortunate bug, or deploying the high-priority feature request. Talking with potential and existing clients has been an integral part of this job (with all the drama that comes with it).

Education

• Boston University

  Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

  2016 — 2018

• Manipal Institute of Technology

  Bachelor’s Degree, Mechatronics Engineering

  2011 — 2015