Akhil Singh began his professional career as an associate intern at Samsung R&D Institute in Bengaluru, while he was in his final year at IIIT Allahabad. Akhil Singh secured a Rs 1.12 crore salary package at Rubrik. (File)
Indian techies are a dominant force in the global tech landscape, and while a major portion of these successful engineers often come from the country’s top colleges like the various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), NIT, or IIM, there are scores of young geniuses from lower tiered schools who land high-paying jobs with global tech giants.
One such individual is Akhil Singh, a young software engineer from Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, who secured a record-setting salary package of Rs 1.12 crore at Rubrik– a US-based cloud data management and data security firm.
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