Akhil Jindal

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States11 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led development of Alexa Kids recommendation system.
  • Architected Ads Privacy Infrastructure at Meta.
  • Drove database migration to Amazon RDS Postgres.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C Software Engineer specializing in privacy compliance and recommendation systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsC++

Other Skills

Privacy PoliciesPHPMySQLJavaScriptCData StructuresProgrammingMatlabOpenGLArtificial IntelligenceLinuxBashComputer ScienceAlgorithmsNetwork Simulator

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Java, C++, Python, Matlab and SQL. Strong engineering professional with a B. Tech focused in Computer Science from International Institute of Information Technology.

Experience

11 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • As Tech Lead for Ads Privacy Infrastructure at Meta, I architect and scale advanced streaming and Thrift-based systems that handle Ads data at massive scale, ensuring privacy compliance while powering Meta’s mission-critical Ads delivery ecosystem.
Distributed SystemsC++

Amazon

3 roles

SDE-II

Oct 2018Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Led the development of proactive recommendation system for kids on Alexa Devices. This improved content discovery and enhanced the end user experience.
  • Participated in the launch of Speaker Recognition for Alexa Kids.
  • Rearchitected the core services of Alexa Kids to improve their latency, test
  • coverage to allow for scalability and reliability using state of art technology.
  • Performed a detailed impact analysis and categorization of user flows in various systems provided by Alexa ecosystem. The insights gained from the study have driven several critical decisions in the upcoming projects of Alexa Kids.
  • Drove the launch of Dance Party feature for Alexa Kids. Played a key role in making the involved systems COPPA compliance and ensure child's privacy.

SDE-II

Promoted

Oct 2017Oct 2018 · 1 yr

  • Drove the end to end migration of database system thatrecords all concessions
  • and drives world-wide accounting, from Oracle to Amazon RDS Postgres.
  • Led the design and implementation of various business critical features driving
  • world-wide Concessions reduction, leading to significant monetary benefits forthe
  • company

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Developed a digital concessions policy engine platform to provide customers the
  • ability to get due concessions on digital orders, while ensuring low service abuse by
  • malicious users
  • Implementation of features to prevent abuse and reduce worldwide concession reduction.

Iiit hyderabad

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2015Apr 2015 · 3 mos

  • Teaching Assistant for Mathematics under Prof. Snehasis Mukherjee

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2014Dec 2014 · 4 mos

  • Teaching Assistant for Mathematics under prof. C.N. Kaul

Samsung research institute

Summer Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on image processing algorithms for improving image quality by using
  • contrast enhancement, filtering and other techniques for removing disturbances
  • like haze, etc. to change blurry pixelated images to high resolution ones.

Iiit hyderabad

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2013Dec 2013 · 4 mos

  • I was a Teaching Assistant Of IT-Workshop 1. Main focus was on bash scripting, shell commands.

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

B. Tech — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Bal Niketan Model School, Chandigarh

Jan 2010Jan 2011

Holy Family Convent School

Jan 1997Jan 2009

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