RideSense
Everything a motorcyclist does around a ride, in one app. Plan the route, ride as a group with live location, split fuel and food costs, track your own spend, and keep a garage of your bikes.
Hey, I’m Akhil
Software engineer
I spend most of my time on the parts of an application nobody sees. The API layer, the database, the pipeline that ships it. Sometimes the part people do see.
Currently: shipping a new pipeline @ RideSense
About
I’m currently working as a Software Engineer at RideSense, where I work on building and improving a product for motorcyclists.
My path into software wasn’t a traditional one. Before moving into software, I worked as a lift technician with Mitsubishi Electric and TKE. I started building things in 2023 and taught myself by building complete applications and learning along the way.
I enjoy figuring out how things work, solving problems, and turning ideas into something real. I learn best by building, finding something I don’t understand, and figuring it out along the way.
Outside work it’s the gym, long rides, and a fair amount of time alone.
Selected work
Elevio
An e-learning platform where a recorded course comes with the tutor attached. Message them directly, book one-to-one video sessions, and work through the material with progress tracked as you go.
SipSavvy
An online liquor store with the money side built out. Card, cash-on-delivery and wallet payments, coupons, referral cashback, returns and refunds, and an admin panel for catalogue, stock and orders.
AadhaarXtract
Reads a photo of an Aadhaar card and pulls the printed fields out as text you can check and correct, instead of transcribing twelve digits by hand. Recognition runs on Tesseract.js.
Experience
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Oct 2025 — present
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · remote
Software engineer
I own the API layer, the AWS setup, and the deployment pipeline, and I built the web app for live ride tracking. It's a live product with users on both app stores, so changes go out on a release cycle the rest of the team works to. I write the documentation for the parts I own, and I stay with that code long enough to maintain the decisions in it.
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Feb 2024 — 2025
Trivandrum, Kerala, India · onsite
Full stack developer intern
Brototype
Full stack development. Alongside it I built SipSavvy and Elevio end to end, teaching myself by shipping complete applications rather than following tutorials.
Stack
backend
| Node | daily |
|---|---|
| Express | daily |
| TypeScript | daily |
| REST API design | daily |
| JWT auth | daily |
| Socket.IO | shipped with Elevio |
| WebRTC | shipped with Elevio |
| NestJS | daily |
data
| PostgreSQL | daily |
|---|---|
| MongoDB | daily |
| DynamoDB | comfortable |
| Redis / Valkey | comfortable |
infrastructure
| AWS EC2 | daily |
|---|---|
| AWS S3 | daily |
| AWS Lambda | comfortable |
| AWS AppSync | comfortable |
| Docker | comfortable |
| CI/CD pipelines | comfortable |
| Vercel | comfortable |
frontend
| React | daily |
|---|---|
| Next.js | daily |
| Redux / Zustand | daily |
| CSS | daily |
| Astro | shipped with RideSense |
| Mapbox | shipped with RideSense |
Contact
- imakhilkumars@gmail.com
- GitHub
- github.com/Akhil-Kumar-2001
- linkedin.com/in/meakhil
- instagram.com/im.akhilkumar.s
Kollam, Kerala