Akshat Sharma is a Developer Advocate at Deskree, dedicated to building meaningful connections between technology and community.
In 2024, he was selected as one of 1,220 contributors from over 43,000 applicants in Google Summer of Code. In 2025, he returned as a mentor—guiding contributors in Google Summer of Code 2025, Mifos Summer of Code, and Code for GovTech. His research journey has taken him to the University of California and IIT Indore, and he has authored eight research papers in recent advancements and technology. He has presented his work at prestigious conferences including ICACIS 2023, ICNSBT 2024, C3IT 2024, the Open Source Security Summit, Interledger Summit, and the Bharat FinTech Summit. He has also spoken at major global events, delivering talks at the Interledger Summit in Cape Town, GRPC Conf in Bengaluru, and OpenSearchCon in Japan. Additionally, he has attended industry-leading gatherings such as Open SSF, Open Source Summit India, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.