Akanksha Sharma

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States11 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of software development expertise.
Led high-impact projects in major tech companies.
Passionate about mentoring and fostering growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer specializing in scalable systems across Fintech, SaaS, and Telecommunications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentBig DataFrontend DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentPerformance EngineeringMobile Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentData StructuresJavaScriptMongoDBNode.jsPerformance OptimizationProgrammingReact.jsVoLTEFront-end Development

About

Seasoned Software Engineer specializing in crafting highly scalable distributed systems. Over a decade of multifaceted software development expertise, I excel in creating, designing, and deploying distributed microservices, big data systems, full-stack services, desktop applications, and mobile software solutions. I am a self-driven individual with a keen focus on delivering results and collaborating effectively within teams. I thrive on continuously expanding my knowledge base and am deeply passionate about mentoring, fostering growth in others, and tackling intricate, challenging problems.

Experience

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs · Seattle, Washington, United States

Projects:
1. Tech Lead for the integration of a new payments wallet for a confidential product.
2. Led development of a scalable backend service for monitoring merchant websites, implementing data crawling and scraping services to evaluate data compliance.
3. Architected a distributed data collection pipeline for fraud detection models and related services by collaborating with multiple stakeholders, driving high-impact solutions for identifying merchant and shopper fraud for a confidential project.
3. Led development of big data analytics platform with a scale of millions of data transactions.

Distributed SystemsNode.jsMongoDBBackend Development

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana

Projects:
Spearheaded the design of core features, including user data history, top sites, and user-pinned website migration, as well as the first-run experience for Microsoft's new Chromium-based browser. This replaced the older Microsoft Edge browser and increased its market share from ~5% to ~8% within just 3 months of launch.

JavaScriptReact.jsFrontend DevelopmentWeb Development

Adobe

Member Of Technical Staff

Aug 2015 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida Area, India

Projects:
1. Played a pivotal role in the development of a new PDF viewer currently serving millions of customers in Adobe Document Cloud. Designed and implemented critical full-stack features.
2. Significantly improved product performance by reducing PDF rendering time from approximately 6 seconds to 3 seconds, enhancing the user experience.
3. Architected and implemented an end-to-end performance metric logging service, along with client-side telemetry, enabling comprehensive performance analysis and optimization.

Full-stack DevelopmentPerformance OptimizationPerformance Engineering

Samsung research institute, bangalore

Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Project:
1. Developed and maintained various features of the IP multimedia software client for Android devices, including conference call flow, call termination scenarios, and other VoLTE (Voice over LTE) features using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for major telecommunication operators in regions like the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
2. Integrating IMS clients with Samsung's operating system Tizen.

Android DevelopmentVoLTEMobile Development