Akhil Agrawal

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States17 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led payroll product team at Rippling.
  • Built scalable financial infrastructure at Razorpay.
  • Developed data-driven pricing platform at Flipkart.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and E-commerce expert with strong engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTeam Building

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile Project ManagementAlgorithmsBig Data AnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyC++Data StructuresEarly-stage StartupsEngineering LeadershipEnterprise SoftwareEntrepreneurshipErlangFlex

About

Currently leading the payroll product team in Rippling, earlier was leading the tax platform (tax calculation, tax payments & filing) and finance platform (payments, risk, compliance, accounting). Earlier was leading engineering team at Razorpay to build scalable financial infrastructure focusing particularly on reconciliation, accounting and pricing. Before that worked in pricing & promotions at Flipkart, leading the engineering team to build data driven platform for doing pricing & giving promotions. Before that was running software development company providing consulting on niche technologies, apart from development of software products & open source projects. Was also doing software product development in digital advertising/marketing domain/social media monitoring & executed technology consulting projects around Java & Adobe Flex. Before that, had worked on SSL VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology in a network security company Aventail (acquired by Sonicwall). Also have experience in java enterprise software development, working for telecom company Qwest.

Experience

Rippling

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

Engineering ManagementTeam BuildingEngineering LeadershipOrganizational Leadership

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2022Oct 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

Razorpay

3 roles

Associate Director

Promoted

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos · India

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · India

Engineering Manager

Apr 2019Jun 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working in merchant platform team, building generic capabilities to enable payment applications for merchants like route, payment links, payment pages, smart collect and others.

Flipkart

Engineering Manager

Oct 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Working in the pricing & promotion team, building the platform for data driven pricing of the product listings and managing different types of promotions at a very high scale of traffic as well as for very large number of product listings.

Lifesize

Erlang & Ejabberd Consultant

Nov 2015Oct 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Consulting on Erlang and Ejabberd - which is the most popular opensource chat platform, implementing customized features on top of the community edition - chat archive search using elasticsearch, user/room provisioning using rabbitmq, edit/delete messages, onmobile presence, push notification for offline p2p & room messages, shared roster sql query optimization.

Digikrit

Founder

Sep 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Providing consulting on emerging niche technologies, apart from development of innovative software products & open source projects. Currently working on FBJS (Functional Backend & Javascript) based full stack application development in Erlang, Scala & Javascript.
  • Expertise
  • Languages: Erlang, Scala, Javascript
  • Server Frameworks: Ejabberd, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, PlayFramework, NodeJS
  • Client Frameworks: Adobe Flex, jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS

Leprino foods

Adobe Flex Consultant

Jun 2010Jul 2015 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Consulting on Adobe Flex & LCDS technologies for development of front ends for SAP plant maintenance & quality management modules. Flex front ends provides easy to use interface for customized workflows, entering data, doing calculations, print pdf and can be used by plant employees without extensive training.
  • Involved working with wide set of technologies ranging from Adobe Flex 4.6, LCDS, AS3, Parsley Framework, Cairngorm 3, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Axis2, MS SQL Server, SAP, Flex Charting, ILog Elixir, Tomcat, JBoss.

Bizense

Co-Founder & Director

Jul 2008Aug 2015 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Developing software products in the telecom domain and later on moved to digital and mobile advertising. Worked in different roles involving hands on software development, architecture & design. Also, have exposure to technology consulting, client interfacing and team management.
  • Products
  • Adatrix (adatrix.com)
  • BoxMyTalk (boxmytalk.com)
  • Expertise
  • Languages: Java, Erlang, Scala, Javascript
  • Platforms: Linux, Windows
  • Server Frameworks: Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, PlayFramework, NodeJS
  • Client Frameworks: Adobe Flex, jQuery, Bootstrap, AngularJS
  • Development Tools: Eclipse, Emacs, Make, Maven

Sonicwall/aventail

Software Engineer

May 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on different aspects of SSL VPN appliance, particularly in support and development of web access, directly through browser, of various standard enterprise applications like outlook web access, sharepoint, ibm lotus notes along with custom enterprise applications. Involved working with c++, python, javascript, linux and related technologies.
  • Development of feature to provide one time password as a way for two factor authentication to improve security as password is valid for only for one time.

Qwest software services

Software Engineer

Jun 2006Apr 2007 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Worked on the java based service delivery platform (SDP) being developed for use in the company for supporting various telecom products, particularly in the development of dynamic product configuration using rules and user input.
  • Also, developed diamond pattern for supporting multiple inheritance in java using dynamic class loaders. This solution was developed as part of re-factoring of large code base developed over several years.

Max planck institute for molecular genetics

Student Researcher

May 2005Jul 2005 · 2 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

  • Design and implementation of system for integrated visualization of data from various tools like
  • Splicenest, Corg and others. It was based on GBrowse, a general purpose tool for visualising genomic data.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2006

DAV Public School

12th — Higher Secondary

Jan 2000Jan 2002

St. Xavier High School

10th — Secondary

Jan 1992Jan 2000

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