Akshay Sharma

Akshay Sharma is a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Fresha since January 2023, previously serving as a Senior Software Engineer at Yelp where significant contributions included enhancing Kubernetes infrastructure and building operators for stateful workloads. As a Founding Partner of DailyHealthCheck.com and Head of Engineering at Glowing.io, Akshay led engineering efforts and achieved the indexing of over 2 million records in ElasticSearch. Experience also includes roles in decentralized platform development with WeGotcha, research and development at the All India Council for Technical Education, and co-founding Freeword.in. Akshay holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, a Machine Learning Nanodegree from Udacity, and has participated in Y Combinator's Startup School focused on entrepreneurship.