Yashraj Kakkad

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Ranked 1 in class with a CGPA of 3.94/4.
Published research in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Led Google DSC and organized multiple tech events.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with experience in Fintech and Tech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go (programming Language)SqlC++JavaDjango

Other Skills

AWS EC2Amazon EC2Back-End Web DevelopmentBeautiful SoupBloggingBootstrapC (Programming Language)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Competitive ProgrammingDjango RESTDjango REST FrameworkDockerHTMLHTML5JavaScript

About

Yashraj is a Software Engineer at Google. He is in the Google Pay India Risk Management team whose mission is to fight fraud across the platform. Yashraj completed his BTech in Information and Communication Technology at Ahmedabad University. He interned twice at Goldman Sachs in the SecDB architecture team in the Engineering division. He contributed towards the next-generation risk management and trading platform. He was a researcher as a part of "Undergraduate Research Programme". His work was accepted in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He did a fair amount of competitive programming - 5 stars CodeChef / Expert rated CodeForces. He built a RESTful service as a part of his previous internship at CuratePad.com. He likes to do challenging, diverse projects, all of them accessible on his GitHub profile. Yashraj studies at an academically rigorous institution and therefore likes to maintain a strong record. He graduated with a CGPA is 3.94/4. (Rank 1 in a class of ~120) He was a Google DSC Lead, Secretary of Ahmedabad University's Programming Club and Hackathons Chair at IEEE Student Branch, Ahmedabad University. He led an enthusiastic team of 20 for organizing hands-on sessions, contests, talks and anything which helped build a stronger culture. Yashraj has taken 10+ sessions at different colleges. He likes to talk about internships, Django, Competitive Programming etc. Feel free to contact him if you'd like to discuss an opportunity.

Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Software Engineer III

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

August 2024 - Present: Google Photos Storage Infrastructure
July 2022 - July 2024: Google Pay India Risk Engineering

Software Engineer II

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

Google Pay India Risk Engineering

SQLJavaGo (Programming Language)

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

C++

Summer Analyst

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo

Reduced a bottleneck by migrating database hotkeys to an in-memory, distributed cache.
Recreated performance setup, optimized the cache configuration, carried out performance benchmarking and recorded a minimum 4x performance increase per transaction.
Architected a solution for ACID compliance across both datastores based on "two-phase commit protocol"

Java

Curatepad

Back End Developer

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos

Built a RESTful API and the backend for the content curation platform using Django and Django REST Framework.
Wrote scalable, maintainable, DRY code with unit tests, documentation and logging.
Created a browser extension.
Deployed the application to an AWS EC2 instance with the help of Nginx and Docker.

Ahmedabad university

Undergraduate Research Fellow

Feb 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

Working on a project titled "Mathematical modelling and Applied Deep Learning for 5G-NR and Wi-Fi 6" under Prof. Dhaval Patel.
The project is funded by DST-UKIERI and the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Analyzed and successfully reproduced papers of top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications successfully.
Paper published at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology as Correspondence.

Aum event and promotion pvt. ltd.

Web Developer

Sep 2019 – Dec 2019 · 3 mos · Greater Ahmedabad Area

Understood their problem statement of managing their inventory by different people.
Designed and developed a Django-based web application for a system which tracks an inventory of products across different locations.
Created a simple front-end with the help of Bootstrap.

Techprobex.com

Blogger and Owner

Jun 2013 – Jul 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Created and wrote articles on this technology blog which at its peak generated over 25000 views per month.
Helped people solve their common problems related to technology. Wrote how-tos, tips, tricks and reviews.
The blog ranked on search engines for various popular keywords and received significant organic traffic.
I received the award "Rising Star - Blogger of the Year" at BlogX 2017 - Asia's largest blogging conference.