Head of Importers @ Postman
Product lines include
- Importers
- Exporters
- Interceptors for Browsers
- Network Proxy for OS and Browsers
Head of Product Engineering @ Postman
Senior EM @ Postman
- API Design and Mock
- Search & Reporting
- Documentation
- API Network
- API Platform
Staff Engineer @ Slack
- I have worked on Calls Platform as a contributor.
- I laid the technical foundation for Shortcuts as a Tech Lead.
- Lead an internal automation tool as a Tech Lead. One of the core feature is, write one test case and run it against any Slack client ie Android, iOS, Web and Desktop.
Product failures bring in real insights, like a spear sharpening for what’s next. Dare to fail fast to succeed.
Akshay wrote his first code for a construction company at the age of fourteen; his favourite toy in his childhood had been his father’s precious Intel 286. At twenty-three, he built a product that raised seed funding and was later acqui-hired by one of the top five global ad-tech companies; and presently works as a Staff Engineer at Slack.
June 18, 2020
Joining forces with Media.Net
2016 - 2019Back to consultancy
Twist, a better stick than Amazon FireStick 🤩
After AppSurfer, we briefly worked on a hardware product called
Twist. The
vision for the product was, to convert the most powerful computer in everyones' pocket i.e.
smart phones into a remote control for the TV. We took this idea a
little further, by converting phones into a game controller as well 🤩.
Startup life
Solapur boy Akshay Deo wants to build a world-class ‘true tech product’ out of India
Internet speed is commonly expressed as Mbits/second. It only takes a split second to have information travel thousands of kilometers. But, in some parts of the world it often takes years for technology to reach. However, for people with passion and a genuine desire to learn, nothing can be a barrier. Akshay Deo is one such person...
December 8, 2015
At the age of 23 (2012), I founded a company called RainingClouds along with 3 other co-founders. We built a product, AppSurfer, which in brief, runs Android on the cloud and can stream on any platform. We got a lot of buzz in tech blogs 🗞.
AppSurfer Takes Android Apps To The Browser, Lets You Embed Them Anywhere
Amazon’s Appstore for Android has long allowed consumers to test apps in the
browser before purchase, but a new startup debuting now wants to offer an
alternative. AppSurfer, as the company is called, has a bigger vision: it wants
to become the “YouTube of Android apps.”
March 21, 2013
App Demo Platform AppSurfer Lets You Test Apps On Facebook
AppSurfer, an Indian startup working to bring Android applications to the
browser so users can “try before they buy,” is today launching an Android
application which lets users browse, test, then install the applications they
like.
October 11, 2012
AppSurfer lets you trial Android apps directly in your Facebook News feed
Now, a new service called AppSurfer has arrived on the scene and is taking this
‘try before you buy’ philosophy a step further, with Android apps embeddable on
any website AND in Facebook news feeds.
November
27, 2012
AppSurfer adds tablet apps to web-based try-before-you-buy Android app demos
AppSurfer, the online demo site for Android smartphone apps that launched last
October, is now letting developers offer tablet apps, too. While buying an app
for a couple of bucks may not be a big deal, no one wants to waste money. So
try-before-you-buy is a great idea, especially for those apps that you can’t
fully evaluate within the 15-minute Google Play refund period.
January 21, 2013
We successfully raised 1 crore INR (~200K 💰) as seed funding from One97 Mobility fund run by Vijay Shekhar Sharma (PayTM founder). For the next couple of years, we tried multiple use cases around this tech but sooner or later the economics of running the business and revenue did not match to convert this into a profitable business 😞. Eventually, most of the products we had built were built by Google. We detailed out this journey in an official blog post..
College
Btw I am also the proud owner of the world's first Android phone i.e. HTC G1 which is demoed in the first video 😌.