Akshat Agarwal

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in data-driven insights and analytics.
Proven leadership in technology and engineering roles.
Strong background in search and recommendation systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Analytics and Media Technology expert with a strong focus on search and recommendation systems.

Contact

akshat.agarwal@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkCC++Data MiningDatabasesDebuggingDistributed SystemsElasticSearchInformation RetrievalJavaLinuxMobile DevicesPerformance Testing

Experience

Cohesity

3 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Deriving insights from enterprise data.

Technical Director

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

MTS

Mar 2017 – Jul 2021 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Grofers

AVP - Technology

Jan 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Revamped search experience on the consumer app. Building components for managing warehouses.

Rovi (veveo)

Manager Engineering

Mar 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Leading a team which works on building Rovi Knowledge Graph for video and music domains across different languages and regions of the world. This powers smart sematic search and personalization solutions.

Veveo

2 roles

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jan 2012 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Conversational query system: Lead a team which created the knowledge graph powering a conversational query system for entertainment. Elements of the knowledge graph included among other things extracting topics and weighted keywords for programs, de-duplicating records from multiple sources and adding current events to the knowledge graph. I also worked on correcting speech recognition errors which aided in named entity recognition and built a scalable system for the same.
Search and Recommendation: Worked on algorithms for cloud based personalized search and recommendation for entertainment.

Member of Techincal Staff

Jan 2008 – Feb 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

QuickSearch: Mobile app (Symbian and Android) for searching on-device content as well as some canned content from our search servers. I created the personalization module of this app which biased the search results using user activities across time and different places. I also worked on the core search data structures and memory analysis of the product to improve efficiency.
V360: Analytics product for TV viewing behaviour. I worked on distributed log processing and a file based backend to answer user behaviour queries.
Vtap: Video discovery and playback service for mobile phones. I created a scalable (using AWS) video transcoding backend for the service which in real time converted video from a source website to a mobile suitable quality and streamed it to the user.