Menu
Hello,

I'm Akshay Bankar.

Software Engineer Full Stack Developer

More About Me
About

Let me introduce myself

Profile Picture

I am a technology enthusiast currently working at Stanford Health Care as a Software Engineer. I have over 5 years of industry experience and I'm well versed with the Software Development Life Cycle. I’m an organized team player with strong ownership and solid interpersonal skills.

My interests lie in solving coding problems on algorithms and data structures in my free time. When I'm away from the screen, you'll find me hiking and driving around with friends.

Profile

  • Fullname: Akshay Arun Bankar
  • Birth Date: September 08, XXXX
  • Job Title: Software Engineer
  • Website: bankarakshay.github.io
  • Email: abankar571@gmail.com

Skills

  • JAVA
  • PYTHON
  • ANGULAR
  • JAVASCRIPT
  • MS SQL
  • MONGODB
Resume

More of my credentials.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

Jan 2023 - Present

Stanford Health Care

  • Designed and implemented a scalable ingestion pipeline using Spring Boot microservices, AWS SNS/SQS, and AEM, reducing batch-processing CPU load on AEM Author by ~80% and stabilizing long-running imports.
  • Leading the redesign of the external Stanford Health Care website using AEM, Java, JavaScript, AJAX, and jQuery, improving key page load times by ~30% and modernizing legacy components.
  • Built a high-performance web crawler indexing 50K+ internal links (doctors, conditions, clinics, clinical trials), significantly improving search coverage and content discoverability.
  • Developed a recursive JCR metadata traverser to scan and validate large content trees, enabling automated audits of tens of thousands of nodes and reducing manual QA effort.
  • Created responsive, reusable AEM components used across multiple sites and locales, improving authoring consistency and reducing duplicate implementation work.
  • Collaborate with product, content, and infrastructure teams in an Agile environment to translate complex technical constraints into clear, user-focused solutions.

Software Engineer

Oct 2021 - Jan 2023

The Home Depot

  • Worked on the Carrier Communications team building tools to monitor “last mile” delivery for appliances and big-ticket orders across 70–75% of The Home Depot’s appliance business.
  • Served as the primary engineering point of contact for a strategic third-party carrier, partnering with operations and vendor teams to troubleshoot delivery issues and improve on-time performance.
  • Led the retirement of a legacy application and development of multiple RESTful Spring Boot services (JSON/XML over HTTP, Maven, Tomcat) to standardize vendor integrations and streamline request handling.
  • Built and maintained backend services powering internal tracking portals and operations dashboards, improving visibility into delivery exceptions and escalations.
  • Worked in an Agile Scrum / XP environment with pair programming and TDD, contributing clean, well-tested code and participating in regular release cycles.

Software Engineer

Sept 2019 - Oct 2021

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

  • Worked on engineering life insurance software products under AXA IT Application Outsourcing (Financial Protection).
  • Successfully migrated one of the key Enhanced Service Portals from IBM WebSphere portlet technology to Spring Boot and Angular, deploying on Azure Kubernetes Service and saving the company around $800K in licensing costs.
  • Refactored a calculation engine (“Blackbox”) using Spring Boot to automate premium calculations and reduce manual effort by ~70% for business teams.
  • Developed web applications such as the Benefit Payment Program for insurance operators using Angular, Spring Boot, and J2EE.
  • Created data models and designed SQL database schemas to support client-facing applications and internal tooling.
  • Regularly engaged with business stakeholders to understand requirements, support enhancements, and ensure high-quality delivery of features.

Software Engineer Intern

July 2019 - Sept 2019

Informative Technologies

  • Worked on “ReviveNC Student Support” – a Charlotte Green Initiative project – analyzing requirements and proposing solutions to support student access to refurbished technology.
  • Developed a user interface to visualize e-waste at UNCC, targeted to increase reuse of equipment to 80%.
  • Implemented web scraping pipelines to build datasets from unstructured online sources, helping the refurbishment team reduce search effort by ~50%.
  • Tools and Technologies: Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Ajax, JSON, MySQL.

Software Developer Intern

June 2016 - May 2017

BiCS Infotech

  • Designed and developed a high-throughput web application using the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js).
  • Applied strong skills in design, data structures, problem solving, and debugging to write efficient, maintainable, and reusable code.
  • Developed an Android application for the Software Engineering Associates Club using Android Studio and a Java-based server, with a companion web app built in JSP & Servlets.
  • Performed image processing using OCR frameworks to process 500+ car title images and map them back to their owners.

Education

Master in Computer Science (GPA - 3.80)

January 2018 - May 2019

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Courses: Algorithms & Data Structures, Network Based Application Development, Database Systems, Mobile Application Development, Software System Design and Implementation.

Bachelor of Computer Engineering
(GPA - 3.75)

July 2013 - June 2017

University of Pune

Courses: Data Structures & Problem Solving, Database Management Systems, Engineering Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Software System Design Methodology.

Portfolio

Check Out Some of My Work.

Contact

I'd Love To Hear From You.

Please leave me a message along with some of your details and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you for reaching out.

Sending...
Your message was sent, thank you!
Where to find me

San Francisco Bay Area

Email Me At

abankar571@gmail.com

Call Me At

Phone: +1 (980) 833-9512