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Akshil Shah

Akshil Shah

Chief Technology Officer at Swirl

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Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Joined January 2026
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Summary

Progressive product-engineering leadership within a startup context: Akshil has moved from hands-on engineering roles into product engineering leadership and executive technology leadership at Swirl (titles include Head of Product Engineering, Director of Product Engineering, and Chief Technology Officer). signalhire+1
Full-stack software engineering background: his earlier roles are consistently full-stack and engineering-focused (Full Stack Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer), showing sustained hands-on development experience prior to taking leadership roles. signalhire+1
Technical author and researcher: he publishes technical tutorials and research—author of a Medium tutorial on building a React app and a 2023 paper on applying machine learning to waste classification (with accompanying GitHub code). medium+2
Active on developer and social platforms: maintains a GitHub account with project repositories and a presence on Medium, Quora and Instagram under the handle 'akshitachi', linking his public technical writing and personal interests. github+3

Work

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Writing

Employing Machine Learning to Identify Waste Characteristics

January 1, 2023

Academic/technical paper describing use of numpy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn and Python COCO tools to classify waste categories and provide analysis and statistics; code hosted on GitHub.

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React 101: Build a simple React app under 5 minutes!

March 1, 2018

A Medium tutorial that walks through creating a simple React counter application and explains component state and basic event handling.

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Hobbies

Travel and photography (self-described: 'Travel Freak', 'Snap Lover'). quora+1