Akanksha Gupta

Engineering Manager

San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams at DoorDash for Merchant Apps.
  • Key contributor to Netflix website development.
  • Published research on VM migration algorithms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineering Manager with expertise in Web Development and Research in VM technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentEngineering ManagementWeb DevelopmentResearch

Other Skills

Algorithm DesignCC++CSSCore JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipData Center ArchitectureData StructuresData WarehousingDatabasesHTMLJavaJavaScriptMySQLNode.js

Experience

Doordash

Engineering Manager, Merchant Apps

Jun 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • I lead three cross-functional engineering teams at DoorDash—comprising EMs, backend, and frontend engineers—focused on the Merchant Tablet App, Merchant Web & Mobile App, and our core Access Management platform.
Engineering ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware Development

Netflix

Staff Software Engineer

Feb 2014Jun 2022 · 8 yrs 4 mos · Los Gatos, California · On-site

  • At Netflix, I was part of a small but mighty team that built netflix.com from the ground up. I built key parts of the website like the initial instant search, homepage, genre pages and the manage and add profiles modal. I was also responsible for unifying the kids and adults UI experience.
  • At Netflix, I was also fortunate to be part of 2 critical committees, one that redid our interview process for an org of about 500 and also the representative from UI engineering for building our new grad onboarding program.
JavaScriptHTMLCSSJavaSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Ixigo.com

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2012Jan 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • iXiGO is a global travel search engine and is ranked as one of the top travel sites in India. I developed re-usable widgets for the trip planner. Working on new ideas to visualize and plan trips.
  • Working on Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and jQuery
JavaJavaScriptCSSHTMLjQuerySoftware Development+1

Ibm research

Software Developer

Nov 2010Oct 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Work at IBM Research Labs on VM Migration algorithms.
  • Responsibilities include identification of new research problems , algorithm design and coding and testing with real data along with research paper publication and product integration.
  • Published a paper titled : "Remedy: Network-aware Steady State VM Management for Data Centers" at the Networking 2012 conference in Prague.
  • Currently working on Application Aware VM Migration.
VM MigrationAlgorithm DesignResearchSoftware Development

Epic

Software Developer

Feb 2010Oct 2010 · 8 mos · United States

Education

UC Irvine

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2009

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