Akshat Jain

Senior Software Engineer @Celayix

Vancouver, BC, CA

At my current position, my main roles include leading teams, designing, developing, maintaining, testing, debugging and deploying new and existing web applications. Some of my major contributions are:• Successfully led software development teams to timely completion of complex projects• Designed back end architecture of “Partner Integration” projects to sync data between Celayix and partner payroll companies, increasing sales of our company by 15%• Introduced database version control tool “Liquibase” in our company to automate database change process• Designed company’s first scalable socket api architecture, enabling our customers to use heavy-load self-scheduling feature and export large payrolls, improving response time by 20%• Migrated our customers’ data from legacy Progress DB to AWS RDS enabling our company to cut heavy costs of maintaining on-premise servers• Created a REST API using AWS Lambda, API Gateway and serverless framework to allow employees of our clients to check-in through external hand-punch devices• Implemented barcode scanning functionality in Team Xpress mobile app to facilitate check-in process using mobile devices, allowing smoother and faster experience for employees• Enhanced notification system architecture to send notifications in 3 languages: English, French and Spanish to cater to the needs of client’s language preference• Wrote back-end business logic in progress 4gl for various company projects like shift affirmation, customer/site/service enhancement, shift auto-match, etc.• Regularly deployed applications’ backend stacks using build management and continuous integration tool “Teamcity” to support the practice of Continuous Integration (CI)/ Continuous Delivery (CD)• Mentored and explained company’s existing architecture and tools to co-ops to help them get started on the project

The University of British Columbia

Master of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jamia Millia Islamia

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

Kulachi Hansraj Model School

XIIth, Science subjects