akshay.sharma

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akshay kumar
sharma

developer relations engineer who builds communities and ships content.

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track 01// 70k humans

community

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geekroom members
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college chapters
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hackathon registrations — code kshetra
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partners: microsoft · mastercard · vapi · groq
track 02// reach

content

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linkedin impressions
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olake blog impressions
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medium articles · 9 olake articles
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long-form videos · many shorts

creating long-form tutorials and short-form explainers, distributed across olake youtube, signoz youtube, personal linkedin, instagram, and x.

track 03// signoz · olake · youtube

long-form videos

signoz youtube

podcast — observability & devtools

more on signoz youtube more on olake youtube
track 03.1// shorts · reels

short-form

short-form explainers running across youtube shorts and instagram reels.

youtube shorts

track 03.2// 500k+ impressions

linkedin featured

dedicated technical posts that drove 500k+ impressions and built a consistent audience over time.

connecting the company repo to ai
weekend ai build
the ai side of opentelemetry
#buildinpublic — llm + ai
more on linkedin
track 03.3// cappybaradeploy

x posts

@cappybaradeploy on x
track 04// long form

writing

9 olake articles · 30+ medium articles · 150k+ cumulative impressions

track 05// iceberg · olake · geekroom

events & workshops

apache iceberg meetup — bangalore

india's first official apache iceberg meetup. co-hosted with aws, minio, puppygraph, olake, e6data, firebolt, fivetran.

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apache iceberg bangalore: next-gen cdc patterns

deep dive into change-data-capture patterns for the iceberg ecosystem.

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open lakehouse meetup ft. apache iceberg

building scalable data platforms — hosted at cloudera office, bangalore.

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olake 6th community meetup

open-source lakehouse community workshop with industry speakers.

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all olake past events bangalore apache iceberg group
track 06// résumé

work

signoz

mar 2026 — present

developer relations engineer

joined to advise on youtube as a developer education channel. built the content engine from the ground up: scripting, recording, and editing 10+ long-form and short-form videos on opentelemetry concepts — collection agents, ai observability, mcp integrations, llm monitoring.

distribution stretches across channels: reddit posts with contextual summaries for devs evaluating observability tools, backlinks embedded into signoz docs to shorten time-to-value, cross-publishing across personal and brand profiles for organic reach beyond the official channel.

datazip / olake

jul 2025 — feb 2026

developer relations engineer

owned developer content and community for olake, the open-source data lakehouse. authored 9 deep technical blogs accumulating 150k+ impressions covering iceberg deletion strategies, mysql/postgres/mssql/db2 sync pipelines, and end-to-end lakehouse architecture with trino, polaris, lakekeeper, prestodb.

conducted india's first official apache iceberg meetup in bangalore — co-hosted with aws, minio, puppygraph, e6data, firebolt, fivetran. organised multiple olake community meetups + workshops. coordinated hacktoberfest and gsoc programs. ran seo strategy that lifted site performance by 30%.

tensorstax

oct 2024

software engineer

joined an early-stage ai data platform building codex, an ai-driven etl tool. took full-stack ownership: efficient payload generation, apache superset dashboards reaching 80%+ chart accuracy in ai-driven analytics, automated the ml deployment pipeline on azure for seamless infra rollout and scaling.

the work spanned product engineering, infrastructure, and data quality. platform later acquired by snowflake.

geekroom

apr 2022 — present

founding member & community lead

founded and scaled a pan-india developer community to 70k+ members across 20+ college chapters through hackathons, workshops, and technical sessions.

led code kshetra — india's largest student hackathon (400+ participants, 17k+ registrations) — and the code cubicle series, partnering with microsoft, mastercard, vapi, groq to connect students with real-world engineering opportunities.

track 07// ships

projects

nonilion

next.js · livekit · gcp · docker

immersive virtual meeting platform. 3k+ users. #5 product of the day on product hunt. sub-meeting spaces with 3d avatars, spatial audio using livekit for real-time webrtc, jira sdk integration for in-meeting task management.

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balencai

langchain · mastra · rag · openai

finance document automation via ai agents. mastra agentic workflows for extracting financial fields from pdfs; rag pipeline with vector embeddings for natural language querying.

granite pill

electron · python · ibm granite · local asr

floating always-on-top speech-to-text desktop app for apple silicon macs. transcribes audio entirely on-device with ibm's granite 4.0 — no cloud. shift+x hotkey, instant clipboard copy.

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check more projects on github
track 08// channels

distribution

reddit

contextual video summaries targeting devs evaluating observability tools.

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hacker news

strategic technical post submissions.

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linkedin

5k+ followers · 500k+ impressions sharing projects organically.

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@cappybaradeploy — technical posts and ai/observability commentary.

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instagram

@akshayat.it — reels covering ai, devtools, and behind-the-scenes.

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track 09// receipts

what managers say

"
worked with akshay for a short duration at signoz, and what stood out to me was his exceptional agency. he would always come up with creative, new content ideas and deliver promptly.
— manager — signoz
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akshay has an exceptional ability to solve complex issues, even when documentation is lacking, highlighting his deep technical expertise and problem-solving skills.
— saurabh shubham — founder @ mindcase
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i strongly endorse akshay kumar sharma for his exceptional project coordination skills, especially within the tech domain. he is adept at leading teams and managing projects with efficiency. he consistently demonstrates a proactive approach, delivering tasks ahead of schedule. his talent for delegating tasks effectively greatly contributes to the team's success.
— sanskriti kadam — mentor · power bi developer @ prophecy
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i highly recommend akshay, especially for team management. he's great with tech and leading teams. he's shown he can handle projects well and works great with others. he's got lots of skills and is always eager to help out.
— yatharth chauhan — managed directly · building @yatri cloud · aws community builder
track 10// end side a

let's talk

currently open to devrel roles at ai and developer tooling companies.

akshayne912@gmail.com

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