Akash Thomas is a SDE at Kong Inc.. Colleagues describe him as "I had the pleasure of working with Akash Thomas at Instawork. Akash is a highly skilled and dedicated engineer, with a deep understanding of Python, Django, Terraform, and AWS, among other technologies. One of Akash's most impressive achievements was designing and building a dispatch service with a distributed architecture that helped scale our product. Akash also demonstrated strong leadership skills when he proposed and led a team to build a load testing infrastructure using… Show more" and "We hired Akash as an engineer within Instawork's growing Platform Team. He came from a background in product engineering, and I was very impressed with how quickly and thoroughly he came up to speed on our stack to become a platform engineer with Python, AWS, MySQL, Terraform, etc. He was also able to adapt to our high-growth, fast-paced startup culture. He created impact by leading and delivering various core initiatives and helped the platform scale to meet the growing traffic… Show more"