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# Akash Agarwal on Tal

## Headline

Big data Lead \(Distributed Systems, Big Data, AI & Internet Products\)

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Sr\. Engineering leader at Swiggy, Mar 2019 \- Present · 7 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading Central Growth, Data Intelligence, and AI Platform for a hyperlocal commerce business\. On the growth side, I own the charter for cross\-pollinating users across business lines, acquiring new users, reactivating dormant ones, and building third\-party growth integrations \(Hotstar, Meta, Google\) alongside AI\-driven acquisition channels\. On the platform side, I own the next\-generation ML and Data Platform handling petabytes of data, hundreds of production ML models, and thousands of features powering real\-time decisioning and business intelligence at hyperlocal scale\.

Technical Lead at \[24\]7, May 2014 \- Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 11 mos, India, Led a 40\-engineer team designing a multi\-channel \(Web, IVR, Speech, Chat, Virtual Assistant\) self\-serve analytics platform, building the end\-to\-end data ingestion, processing, and export pipeline with Spark\. Separately architected a microservices\-based common\- services platform \(auth, authorization, auditing, notifications, metadata\) on ForgeRock, including secure user onboarding and OTP\-based authentication\. Stack: Kafka, Spark, HDFS, Elasticsearch, Druid, Cassandra, OpenAM, Java, Spring\.

Senior Developer at MarketShare, 2012 \- 2014 · 2 yrs, • Involved with requirement analysis, implementation, production issues, release management and coordination across multiple teams \(UX, QA, Machine Learning and Data\)\. • Built, tested and deployed scalable, highly available and modular software products using Grails, Java, Hadoop \(Map Reduce\), rabbitmq, memched and Amazon EC2\. • Improved development process by code reviews and test\-driven developments\. • Lead team members to achieve project targets\.

Research & Development Engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks, 2010 \- 2012 · 2 yrs, Manyatha Tech Park, Bangalore, ● Designed and developed the interface between UI layer \(JAVA\) and core API \(C\+\+\) layer using tool SWIG ● Worked closely with architect to prepare HLD, LLD and developed multiple features ● Continuously improved the platform and services to address dynamically changing customer requirements

inte at K P INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED, Sep 2009 \- Jul 2010 · 11 mos, Greater Jaipur Area

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Computer Science, rajasthan technical university

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