Akshay Tayade

Full Stack Software Engineer with 2.5+ years building scalable web applications, real-time platforms, and AI-powered features. Proficient in React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ. Hands-on with RAG pipelines, semantic/vector search, and LLM integrations. Strong full SDLC ownership — system design through deployment, observability, and iteration.

Software Engineer at Sarv.com (2024-01 – Present)

• Architected real-time collaboration features (group chat, threaded replies, reactions, read receipts) using WebSockets & Socket.io; reduced message latency by ~40% via connection pooling and optimized event broadcasting.
• Rebuilt Chat & Teams frontend architecture: code-splitting with React.lazy(), shared Storybook component library, and custom React hooks — cut initial bundle load time by ~25%, standardized UI patterns across modules, and owned the design system used by 3 product teams.
• Optimised Core Web Vitals across Chat module — reduced LCP by ~38% and eliminated layout shift (CLS ≈0) via font subsetting, image lazy-loading, and critical CSS extraction; tracked improvements through Lighthouse CI integrated into the pipeline.
• Designed AI-powered semantic document search with OpenAI embeddings, Elasticsearch kNN vector search, and a RAG retrieval pipeline — chunking, vector indexing, and re-ranking enabling natural language Q&A; over 100K+ records with sub-second latency.
• Engineered Redis caching (Pub/Sub & cache-aside) and optimized Elasticsearch pipelines — cut DB load by ~30%, search speed by ~55%, and critical API response times by 150–250ms.
• Introduced RabbitMQ async processing for notifications, email delivery, and bulk ingestion — decoupled services and reduced synchronous API response times by ~20%.
• Built FastAPI microservice for AI inference and document ingestion; migrated key services to PostgreSQL with proper schema design and indexing for relational reporting needs.

Engineer Trainee at Comviva (Tech Mahindra) (2023-08 – 2023-11)

• Validated features for international money transfer systems; built Postman API suites and Selenium automation, reducing manual test effort by ~40%.
• Authored Bash/C utilities for packet transmission and batch processing workflows on Linux environments.

B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering – JECRC College, Jaipur (2019-08 – 2023-05)