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This is Akshat. I am technologist based out of India. I am also the Author of few technical books mentioned below. I have extensive experience of Mobile, DevOps & Web development and have delivered many enterprises and consumer applications over the years.

Alongside writing code & building software, I frequently speak at conferences and meetups on various technologies. I have given talks at ReactNative EU, Cross Platform Mobile Summit, React JS Case Study Festival, TheDevTheory India, Devops@Scale Amsterdam, RubyConfIndia Pune, #inspect Conference brussels and was KeyNote speaker at technology leadership events in Bangkok & Kualalumpur.

Besides technology I like spending time with my family, reading amazing books and obsessive about healthy eating (you can find my Interview Here).

Have an idea to discuss or need help/guidance for your next app or just want to say Hi contact me here.

Publications

RubyMotion iOS development Essentials
(Author)
2013
Introduction to React
(Technical Reviewer)
2015
React Native for iOS development
(Author)
2015
Microservices in Action
(Technical Reviewer)
2018
Practical React Native
(Technical Reviewer)
2018
React Native for Mobile Development
(Author)
2019
The Ruby Workshop
(Author)
2019
The Ruby Workshop
(Technical Reviewer)
2021
Creating Apps with React Native
(Technical Reviewer)
2022
Serverless Web Applications with AWS Amplify
(Author)
2023

Serverless Web Applications with AWS Amplify: Build full-stack serverless applications using Amazing Web Services. Learn the fundamentals of serverless applications and how to take advantage of time-tested Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build scalable apps. This book shows you how to work with the key features of your applications with minimum code, simple CLI commands and one-click deployments.

AWS Amplify is the fastest and easiest way to build serverless web and mobile apps at scale, comprising tools and services that work independently and can be wired together to build scalable apps.”

Publisher : Apress
Release Date : October 2023
Role: Author
Details : Amazon

The Ruby Workshop A Practical no-nonsense introduction to Ruby development. Learn by doing real-world development, supported by detailed step-by-step examples, screencasts and knowledge checks. Become a verified practitioner, building your credentials by completing exercises, activities and assessment checks, and get certified on completion.

Publisher : PacktPub
Release Date : November 2019
Role: Author
Complete Course : Microsite
Buy : Amazon

React Native for Mobile Development Second edition of the first book to teach React Native for iOS development – fully updated to include ES7 (ECMAScript 7), the latest version of React Native (including Redux), and development on Android. Example-driven approach – learn by doing without any need to type or copy/paste – the (regularly updated) accompanying source code repo is available on GitHub

Publisher : Apress
Release Date : June 2019
Role: Author
Buy : Apress Store
More : Announcement Post

Practical React Native Build Two Full Projects and One Full Game using React Native.the book will give you “solid foundation of practical knowledge”, which is later used to build full projects and sliding puzzle game. You will learn not only Expo, React Navigation, and Redux, but also server-side technologies such as Node.JS and Socket.io.

Publisher : Apress
Release Date : Feb 2019
Role: Technical Reviewer
Buy : Apress Store
More : Announcement Post

Microservices in Action This is a practical book about building and deploying microservice-based applications. Written for developers and architects having solid grasp of service-oriented development. You’ll begin with an in-depth overview of microservice design principles, building on your knowledge of traditional systems. Then, you’ll start creating a reliable road to production.

Publisher : Manning Publications
Release Date : Oct 2018
Role: Technical Reviewer
Buy : Manning
React Native for iOS development is a hands-on book helping you to develop native iOS apps with ease. React Native challenges the status quo of native iOS development by its revolutionary concepts like components, asynchronous execution, touch handling and many more. Eliminating the dependency to build native apps using cumbersome languages like Objective-C replacing them with a more ubiquitous option like JavaScript.
Publisher : Apress
Release Date : Feb 2016
Role: Author
Buy : Amazon

Introduction to React teaches you React, the JavaScript framework created by developers at Facebook, to solve the problem of building complex user interfaces in a consistent and maintainable way.React.js shrugs away common front-end conventions in an effort to make things more efficient – use Introduction to React to learn about this framework and more today.

Publisher : Apress
Release Date : Sep 2015
Role: Technical Reviewer
Buy : Amazon
RubyMotion iOS development Essentials Forget the complexity of developing iOS applications with Objective-C; with this hands-on guide you’ll soon be embracing the logic and versatility of RubyMotion. From installation to development to testing, all the essentials are here.
Publisher : PacktPub
Release Date : July 2013
Role: Author
Buy : Amazon

Talks / Interviews / Discussions (16)

Skia Meets React Native: Revolutionizing Mobile UIs and Animations. This session will explore how the integration of Skia with React Native is pushing the boundaries of mobile development, enabling more dynamic and visually stunning user interfaces

Conference: React Universe Conference (formerly ReactNative EU)
📅 When: 5-6th September 2024, Wroclaw, Poland
More: Announcment, Conference Link

Supercharge your web development with React and AWS Amplify! Join Mahesh Haldar and me for an immersive workshop where we’ll dive deep into React and AWS to build scalable web applications.


📅 Date: 3rd June 2023

⏰ Time: 7PM IST

More : Site URL 

Debug Ruby on Rails Apps like a Ninja If programming is a power debugging is the super power for any developer. In this talk i’ll take you through essentials of debugging any Ruby on Rails apps, common tools, libraries and gems used. We will learn with some live debugging of few real situations I was stuch and their resolution. Plan is that by end of this talk you will become a Ninja in debugging any Ruby on Rails app.

Conference : Debug Ruby on Rails Apps like a Ninja
When : Jan 2023
More : Site URL Full Agenda

Building Serverless apps with React & AWS Amplify 💠React is brilliant for building simple to complex web applications but we do need many services to make our application intelligent. 💠With AWS amplify we can leverage power of serverless and host of services on cloud to make our application production grade in no time. 💠In this talk Akshat will take you through how we leverage combined power of React and AWS Amplify by creating a react app with critical features like authentication, connecting with database and go live on web in 35min.

React Global Summit 2021

Real time video communication with ReactJS and WebRTC 

With WebRTC, you can add real-time communication capabilities to your web applications. Video communication has become a critical feature with this wfh generation. In this talk, I will take you step by step how easy it is to build a video chat application using ReactJS and WebRTC. The talk will introduce you to standard WebRTC application architecture, servers involved, how to setup peer connections, discovering peers, and start streaming for a group call. We will implement all this with some live coding and demo using ReactJS.

Conference : React Global Summit 2021 senior Track
When : Nov 2021
More : Site URL Full Agenda

React Native EU 2021 React Native EU is a single-track conference spread over two days (1st-2nd Sep) with speakers from React Native core team at Facebook, key contributors from Expo, Microsoft and more.
My talk is on the topic “Real-Time video communication made easy with React Native (and WebRTC)” in short how to build your own video conference app.

Conference : React Native EU 2021
When : Sep 2021
More : Announcement1 Announcement2

React JS Case Study Festival 21 React JS Case Study Festival is a 24hrs conference scheduled between 27th-28th April 2021 with talks and workshops. The conference has speakers from Facebook, Microsoft, AWS, Shopify and pretty much everyone working/contributing to React consistently.
My talk is on the topic “A case for Microinteraction and Animations in Mobile Apps with React Native” where I will talk about How micro-interactions with Animations are vital to the success of any modern mobile app.

Conference : React JS Case Study Festival 21
When : April 2021
More : Announcement1 Announcement2

Cross Platform Mobile Summit 2020 Cross-platform Mobile Summit 2020 is a single day conference which will be held on 13th November 2020. First speakers at the conference Senior Track beside me are from Flutter core team at Google, React Native for Widows team at Microsoft and other key contributors.
My talk was on the topic “Building apps not for many but for all: Accessibility with React Native” where I discussed talk about How to include Accessibility features in mobile apps using React Native for both iOS/Android.
Also, part of program comettee for React Native track.

Conference : Cross Platform Mobile Summit 2020
When : Nov 2020
More : Announcement1 Announcement2

React Native EU 2020 React Native EU is a premium react native conference that happens in Wroclaw every year (this year its virtual due to Covid pandemic). It’s a single track conference spread in two days 3rd-4th Sep. The conference had speakers from react native core team at Facebook along with other key contributors.
My talk is on the topic “Lets go 3D with React Native” where I will talk about How to build Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality apps with React Native.

Conference : React Native EU
When : Sep 2020
More : Announcement
Talk : Complete video on Youtube
React Native EU Panel Disucssion Panel Discussion at React Native EU conference with Eli White (Facebook), Quinlan Jung (Expo), Harry Tormey, Matt Hargett (PlayStation), Akshat Paul. On various topics related to React Native and mobilie development in general.
Conference : React Native EU
When : Sep 2018
More : Complete video on Youtube
React Native EU First community conference in Europe, focused exclusively on React Native. With the motto `Community, core contributors, insights, networking and tons of knowledge waits for you`. Spoke on the topic of Accessibility and how to easily implement it in your next RN application.
Conference : React Native EU, Wroclaw
When : Sep 2018
More : Complete video on Youtube

The DevTheory Conference TheDevTheory is a tech conference where the developer community can meet and hear from some of the most inspiring speakers in the technology industry. I gave a talk on Microservice, Containers and Kubernetes and how they are a perfect match for scalable apps.

Conference : The DevTheory, Gurgaon
When : April 2018
More : PicturesAfter Movie

Invited Panalist Government of Rajasthan Festival of Education tweethon Invited panelist for Festival of Education initiative by Govt. of Rajasthan discussing Topic “Writing in Digital Age”. Along with other panel members like Mahesh Murthy, Prasoon Joshi, Shakti Salgaonker, Shekhar Gupta and more.

Conference : Festival of Education, Gove. of Rajasthan
When : Aug 2017
More : Pictures
DevOps@scale In this talk I talk about the rise of micrtoservice architecture and why applications are moving towards this paradigmn. Next, how you can use this architecture with containers to make a scalable architecture.
Conference : DevOps@scale, Amsterdam
When : July 2017
More : Pictures

Interview with Dr.Berg on Keto Diet & Intermittent Fasting In this interaction with Dr.Berg I take you through my life altering journey into Keto Diet and IF. Learn how beneficial and easy it is to make this lifestyle change and become a better version of yourself.

When : June 2016
More : Complete interview on Youtube

KeyNote at CIO Matrix on Testing Strategies This talk focussed on how proper Testing strategy can save on budget and time. Practices like TDD helps in improving code quality, reduce time spent on rework and overall improves ability to identify errors and problems quicly.

Conference : KeyNote at CIO Matrix on TDD, BKK & KL
When : Oct 2013, Jan 2014
More : Slides
RubyConf India This talk explained how RubyMotion enables Ruby developers to build native mobile apps with ease focussing on iOS development. How to use its key features to rapidly develop native applications.
Conference : RubyConf India, Pune
When : June 2013
More : Complete video on Confreaks
Inspect RubyMotion Conference In this talk we explored CoreMotion Apple’s framework for motion sensors integration and how to use the core classes and APIs with RubyMotion.
Conference : RubyMotion Conference, Brussels
When : Mar 2013
More : Complete video on Vimeo

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