Akshay S Gaekwad

Smart Food Safe Pvt.Ltd

Software Engineer

• Developed web applications with dashboards and other data visualization components using React, backend services for handling PDF generation, automated emails and data validation with Node for multiple user workflows.
• Improved app performance by cutting page load times and API response delays, writing optimized queries that pulled data from multiple collections in the database for analytics and custom reports.
• Worked in a cross-functional Agile environment, collaborating closely with UI/UX designers to translate customer requirements into responsive, accessible interfaces.
• Set up automated background tasks that sent scheduled emails, processed large datasets, and generated PDF reports directly from the database.
• Owned our deployment pipeline using Jenkins and AWS, pushed for test-driven development practices with Jest.
• Mentored team members to debug tricky problems, review code and share knowledge.
• Utilised agentic tools, scrum and agile best practices in development life-cycle and applied secure API design and input validation throughout the life-cycle.