Akshay Parihar

Akshay Parihar is a seasoned software engineer and founding engineer at Scalekit since January 2025. Prior to this role, Akshay held multiple positions at Freshworks from July 2022 to January 2025, including lead and senior software engineer, and worked at Fidelity Investments from July 2017 to July 2022, where responsibilities included lead software engineer and software engineer roles on various projects, particularly on web applications for advisor-based platforms and the Fidelity Credit Card platform. Akshay also served as the head of VOLOC, a student initiative focused on global education, from January 2016 to January 2017. Earlier academic contributions include research as an undergraduate researcher at Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai, emphasizing the design of efficient micro-grids. Akshay holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from VIT University, completed in 2017.