Archit Kansal

Senior Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States10 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams delivering mission-critical software systems.
Expert in architecting scalable distributed systems.
Strong background in machine learning projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in AdTech and Fintech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Engineering PracticesDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Other Skills

Data StorageAlgorithmsC++Node.jsJavaMachine LearningSQLAndroidHTML5CSSPythonLinuxPHPJavaScriptMongoDB

About

With over six years of industry experience as a software engineer, I have led and delivered multiple complex projects. I have been responsible for product strategy, technical direction, software architecture, design, development and execution, as well as driving process improvements in a challenging technical environment. I have effectively led 6-10 engineers and built strong collaborative relationships across engineering teams. I have worked, and led, projects in a range of technologies including distributed, scalable, performant, reliable, and highly available software, services, data storage, extraction and delivery platforms, transaction processing backends and order management services, structured and methodical reliability and observability improvements across tech stacks, cloud-hosted backend servers, distributed databases and caches, complex event processing, complex data extraction and delivery tools, machine learning projects and more.

Experience

Google

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 7 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

Working on Google Ads Conversions Infra.
Leading a team of 6-10 engineers to ideate, architect, drive and deliver projects driving billions of dollars in revenue impact while truly building for the planet-scale, distributed, extremely robust, mission-critical, latency sensitive, highly available and reliable software systems to support Google user and customers.
Previously - Apigee, Google Cloud
Worked on Cloud API Gateway and Apigee to build and deliver a light-weight api proxy.
Before that - GPay, Payments Platform
Worked on GPay payments platform backend team to deliver UPI based fast, reliable and secure payment experience for millions of users. Delivered multiple critical cross-teams and cross-org projects to improve transaction reliability, observability, data recovery, regionalization of payments data, data logging and more.

Software Engineering PracticesData StorageDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsC+++12

Arcesium

Software Engineer

Jul 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

National institute of technology warangal

Project - Discriminatory Scatternet Framework for Object Classification

Aug 2017 – Apr 2018 · 8 mos · Warangal Area, India

Developed a Discriminatory Scatternet Framework for object classification as part of Final Year UG Project Under the Guidance of Professor K. V. Kadambari and in Collaboration with Mr. Amarjot Singh from Cambridge University. Project focuses and improves on the following aspects of standard scatternets:
Retrieving More Accurate and Uncorrupted High-Frequency Representations
Learned representations include separability between the object of Interest and background clutter
Outperforms the standard scatternet on several relatively small datasets