Akshit Agarwal

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in engineering leadership.
  • Expert in building scalable products across diverse domains.
  • Proven track record in fraud detection and supply chain systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with a strong focus on scalable systems and fraud detection.

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About

Engineering leader with more than 10 years of rich and diverse experience in building scalable products across multiple domains. A core engineer by heart, I'm a deep technologist and problem solver who loves to work closely with people in driving efficient outcomes and high-performing teams. Specialised Areas: Product engineering, Distributed Systems, Supply Chain, AdTech, Fraud detection, Pricing Intelligence, SaaS.

Experience

Allen digital

Engineering Leader

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Leading the Engineering Charter for Live Classes - building scalable, real-time platforms that power engaging and reliable learning experiences.

Flipkart

7 roles

Engineering Manager

Jul 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • > Leading the engineering charter for the core products of 'Flipkart Commerce Cloud', a SaaS platform of Flipkart aiming to build enterprise solutions for Retail players worldwide.
  • > Managing a team of 25+ engineers working across multiple product offerings - 'AdTech Solution', 'Pricing Management Solution' & 'One-click checkout Solution'.

Engineering Manager (Tech lead)

Promoted

Jul 2021Jun 2022 · 11 mos

  • > Leading & managing a team of 10 engineering on building central platform services for Flipkart Commerce Cloud.

Software Development Engineer 4

Jul 2020Jun 2021 · 11 mos

  • > Leading Trust-N-Safety charter (Fraud Detection) and building intelligent fraud detection systems, detecting and preventing frauds (Customer, seller, etc) across various users on Flipkart platform.
  • > Building next generation Accounting systems which are scalable, reliable and handling data across BUs in Flipkart. Leading and managing Payouts across various entities integrating with multiple bank partners.

Software Development Engineer 3

Promoted

Jul 2018Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Part of Flipkart's Trust N Safety team. Responsible for the detection and prevention of various kinds of Frauds happening on Flipkart's platform during the complete life cycle of various actors/entities like buyers, sellers, delivery partners by using predictive intelligence.
  • Building platform components and services for data processing, feature generation/store, deploying/building machine learning models, analytical rules, ops investigation, case management etc
  • Tech Stack: Scala/Java/Python, Spark, Kafka, HBase/Hadoop, Machine learning/Drools, Aerospike/Redis/Mysql

Software Development Engineer 2

Promoted

Jan 2015Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Designing and architecture of multiple supply chain systems for Flipkart with the focus being on scalability, extensibility and reliability. Solving and solutioning for problems involved with distributed system design.
  • As a part of platform team, building systems like Quality Check service, Scalable Audit Store for any transactional data of any entity, contributed to Flipkart open source project : 'Aesop' (Change propagation system over LinkedIn Databus), Database Sharding, etc.
  • Tech Stack: Java/Ruby, Rails/Padrino, Mysql/Hbase/Redis, JMeter

Software Development Engineer 1

Jul 2013Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Part of Supply chain leg of Flipkart (Warehouse Management System). Built next generation ERP solutions and capabilities to optimize on floor operations & workflows. Worked on some major and business critical projects like:
  • Enabling Flipkart Advantage program: Providing warehousing as the service to the sellers.
  • Developed Intelligent algorithms to optimize warehouse space utilization by providing systemic recommendation to on-floor operators.
  • Performed various application and database level optimizations and part of scaling projects required for Big Billion Day sales to scale systems to 20X load.
  • Tech Stack: Ruby on Rails, Padrino, Mysql

Software Development Intern

Jul 2012Jun 2013 · 11 mos

  • Part of analytics team of Flipkart. Building analytical tools and improving existing analytics infrastructure by bringing in as much as automation & intelligence possible.
  • Developed multiple systems like - Workflow based Document Access Approval Console, Automation of daily reports, Sales anomaly detector, etc.

Bharat heavy electricals limited

Software Development Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Greater Bhopal Area

  • Worked on multiple projects aimed at building systems/application to automate manual processes, e.g. automating insurance management which earlier was a manual paper based process.
  • (HTML/JavaScript for frontend and PHP for backend with Oracle 11g as database server)

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2013

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Science (MSc) - Economics

Jan 2008Jan 2013

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