About me.

I'm a senior software engineer based in Pune, India. I've been writing production code since college and shipping it ever since.

Currently a software engineer at SureBright (YC S24), where I built an LLM-driven customs classification engine and provide embedded insurance experience for ecommerce and POS merchants.

In 2025 I also founded tortoise — a small engineering studio building production software for teams that need senior engineers without the agency overhead. SaaS, AI workflows, internal tools, integrations.

Before SureBright, I shipped at Bajaj Markets, where I built event-driven distributed systems for fintech at scale.

I also write at /blog about engineering, building, and shipping.

01Experience
2024 — now
SureBright
YC S24 · Software engineer

Built an LLM-driven customs classification engine and provide embedded insurance experience for ecommerce and POS merchants.

Current
2025 — now
tortoise
Founder · Engineering studio

Building production software for SaaS, AI workflows, internal tools, and integrations.

Current
2022 — 2024
Bajaj Markets
Fintech · Software engineer

Event-driven distributed systems across loans and insurance verticals. Production multitenant integrations at fintech scale on AWS.

2018 — 2022
PICT, Pune
B.E. Computer Engineering

Research Intern at Mask Networks. Research on Decentralized Identity and Bitcoin Core.

02Stack
Languages
TypeScript, Python, Java, SQL
Frameworks
Next.js, React, Node.js, Spring Boot, FastAPI, Remix
Data
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, BigQuery, Supabase
Cloud & infra
AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes
AI
LangChain, GPT-4o, RAG pipelines, Eval harnesses
03Get in touch
Emailakshay@slowdev.in
Book a callcal.com/akshaymalu
LinkedIn/in/akshay-maloo
GitHub@akshaymalu
Twitter@akshaymalu