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SDE-2 @ Meesho | Full Stack | Platform Engineering | BITS Pilani

About

Full-Stack Engineer with 5 years of experience building products at scale. Currently at Meesho — one of India's largest e-commerce platforms — working across frontend, backend, and data engineering. I've shipped features used by millions, and contributed to systems that handle scale. My stack spans React and TypeScript on the frontend, Golang and MySQL on the backend, and Kafka + Flink on the data side. ────────────────────────────── 🛠 Technical Stack Languages: JavaScript · TypeScript · Golang · Java Frontend: React · Next.js · Redux · Zustand Backend: Golang · REST APIs · MySQL · Node.js Data Eng: Apache Kafka · Apache Flink · Apache Doris (Stream processing & real-time analytics) ────────────────────────────── 🎓 Education MTech. Computer Science — BITS Pilani (Ongoing) B.E. Computer Science — KLS GIT (8.64 CGPA · 2021) ────────────────────────────── I enjoy working on hard problems at the intersection of product and infrastructure. Always up for a good conversation about distributed systems, engineering careers, or startups. 📬 akshayraichur9@gmail.com

Location

Bangalore Urban

AI stack

claude code

cursor

notebooklm

obsidian

ollama

openai

Work experience

Software Development Engineer 2 at Meesho, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Data Platform - Near Real Time Analytics Team • Led the frontend development for a next-gen Near Real-Time Analytics platform using React, Typescript & Golang. • Owned critical systems like Signal (NRT) Frontend during peak sales, ensuring stability with 15M+ orders/day. • Delivered end-to-end features including Alerts UI and integrated Z-Score Alerting System, enhancing alert accuracy. • Achieved $xM annual savings by building NRT systems in-house, reducing reliance on third-party tools. • Developed a live order counter for MBS'25 sale with real-time data fetching, auto-refresh, and animated number transitions, enhancing dashboard visibility and engagement; widely adopted across teams, including CXOs. Actively taking interviews to hire the best talent for Meesho.

Software Development Engineer at Meesho, Oct 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Joined Central Web Platform Team, Some of the things that we worked on - Performance optimizations across Frontend applications - Maintaining & building Meesho Design Language - Part of Meesho.com - Doing POCs and experimentations - Improving the dev experience Moved to the Financial Services team on loan for a few weeks - Built products for Meesho suppliers and Meesho users to allow them to apply for loans. - Implemented Webviews with responsive web design used in Meesho's Android & iOS apps. Moved to the Data Engineering BU - Owning the Frontend of Experimentation platform - where users create experiments that run on the Meesho app - Built a scale-up platform within experimentation allowing experiments to be scaled up to 20,50,75,100% of Meesho Users. - Building Real Time Data Analytics tools for Data Visualisation and tracking, helping us in making better decisions Actively taking interviews to hire the best talent for Meesho.

Software Engineer I (Frontend) at Attentive, Nov 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs, Delhi, India, Joined Feature Extraction (FX) team. Have built out products from 0-1 & also 1-100, our main tech stack was React, TypeScript, Nextjs & MobX. - Led the development of multiple Frontend products, took complete ownership & delivered on time. - Led scrum when manager was on leave & as and when required. - Built Blueprint take off software v1, the first online solution for automated site blueprint takeoffs, which is now generating revenue for the company. - Worked on an Annotation Tool platform which is a tool designed to draw on maps. Worked on multiple features, re-wrote the entire tool from Class Components to Functional Components in React which helped in scaling the product. Implemented Config driven UI, tools tracking feature. Used libraries like Open Layers, Turfjs, mapbox. - Revamped the Orchestrator platform (Frontend) with clean UI, made it scalable, improved the app performance, improved the loading/processing of json data on a page from >20 seconds to less than 2 seconds by replacing an expensive library with native HTML/JS Implementation reducing bundle size, thus helping Ops team & Product team to use the app seamlessly.

Full Stack Engineer - Contract at Snazzy, Jun 2021 - Nov 2021 · 6 mos, Remote, Developed a dashboard for patients who consulted with Snazzy using React, Redux. - Integrated payment gateway with Cashfree and Razorpay - Implemented 2FA - RBAC on UI Layer

Software Engineer Intern at Mobijini (Bizmobile IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd.), Jul 2020 - Dec 2020 · 6 mos

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Software Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum

Public links

github: https://github.com/akshayraichur

akshayraichur.com: https://akshayraichur.com/