Akash Rupapara

Senior Software Engineer

Milpitas, California, United States4 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led development of high-impact security features.
  • Achieved 3X faster build times through migration.
  • Improved investigation efficiency by 65%.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Software Development expert with a strong focus on scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesCloud SecurityApi DevelopmentUi DevelopmentFull Stack DevelopmentUser Experience

Other Skills

DockerGithub ActionsJava DevelopmentKubernetesREST APIsgRPCExpress.jsApache KafkaGraphQLMongoDBGolangTypeScriptRoot Cause AnalysisSoftware LifecycleSpring MVC

About

Full-stack software engineer passionate about solving real-world problems through scalable, well-designed systems. A collaborative teammate, strong listener, and clear communicator who values impact, learning, and clean engineering.

Experience

4 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 8 mos
Current Experience

Fortinet

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2026Present · 4 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Designing and building CNAPP product capabilities for threat detection and investigation workflows, enabling security analysts to triage large-scale cloud security alerts across enterprise environments.
  • Developing GenAI-assisted alert analysis workflows integrating LLM reasoning with cloud telemetry to improve signal prioritization and reduce manual investigation effort
  • Leveraged modern AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation, rapid prototyping, and debugging, while collaborating with platform and security research teams to deliver scalable features supporting thousands of enterprise cloud workloads.
  • Optimized alert investigation workflows and backend query performance, reducing investigation steps for common security incidents and improving analyst triage efficiency.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize distributed alert pipelines, improving performance, reliability, and customer experience.
  • Promoted in the first promotion cycle by delivering high-impact features and surpassing expectations.
DockerGithub ActionsJava DevelopmentKubernetesREST APIsgRPC+15

Full Stack Engineer

Sep 2024Jan 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

  • Developed GenAI-assisted alert analysis workflows processing high-volume cloud security telemetry, improving signal prioritization and enhancing investigation efficiency for security analysts.
  • Enhancing threat detection and response capabilities by building APIs and UIs for threat alerts, providing actionable insights for cloud entity compromises.
Java DevelopmentGolangTypeScriptKubernetesREST APIsgRPC+2

Lacework

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer (IC4)

Promoted

May 2024Aug 2024 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Remote

  • Acquired by Fortinet
  • Provided on-call support to approximately 1500+ customers, bringing in around 100M in ARR.
  • Owned design and development of an alert details UI and API, providing users with additional context and information about security alerts. This initiative reduced the mean time to investigate (MTTI) by 65%.
  • Led the migration from Codefresh to GitHub Actions (GHA), resulting in build times that were 3X times faster for all team-owned services.
  • Developed a Python service for running a CLI to manage alert throttling, reducing false positive spikes by thousands, thus enhancing internal developer efficiency and minimizing erroneous alerts sent to customer environments.
  • Executed unit tests, integration tests, and canary tests by employing frameworks such as Jest, JUnit, Cypress etc.
Root Cause AnalysisTypeScriptReact.jsJavaGolangDocker+4

Software Engineer (IC3)

Jan 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Remote

  • Contributed to the end-to-end security alerting system integral to Lacework’s (Sutter Hills and Google Ventures backed startup to be acquired by Fortinet) Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), utilizing technologies like React, Typescript, Java and GoLang, within a microservice architecture.
  • Integrated MITRE ATT&CK tags into the UI, enhancing users’ understanding of the threat landscape, improving security posture, and enabling more effective detection and response strategies.
  • 30% increment was observed in user interaction of alerts after the introduction of this feature.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and fostered a culture of continuous improvement by taking feedback and delivering quality code (with good test coverage) with high bars.
  • Developed a low-latency pipeline for threat intelligence alerts, cutting processing time from 90-120 minutes to under 5 minutes (P95 latency). Contributed significantly to UI improvements and query optimization for database operations.
ScalabilityTypeScriptMicroservicesGolangSpring MVCGit+3

Meta

Software Engineer

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Facilitated full stack project by adding new view player profile feature and two other updates in screens/ functionalities with the ”Fantasy Games” team in Facebook App (impact to 80 Million users).
  • Newly introduced player profiles led to a 25% increase in UI interaction from the game home.
  • Proposed and executed plan to add pagination with new UI in screens having huge data to improve app performance by 30%.
  • Simplified and refactored code to make functions and database queries generic, enhancing readability and improving performance by 7% for millions of users.
  • Completed the intern project, met stretch goals, and handled extra tasks, earning an exceeding expectations rating.
JavaScalabilityC++MicroservicesTechnical UnderstandingGit+9

Ss8 networks

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2022May 2022 · 4 mos · California, United States

  • Designed, implemented and maintained large distributed React-based applications and micro-services.
  • Took ownership of optimizing 2 features to enhance interactivity, working with a team of five including UX.
  • Worked directly with customers to propose and created new screen designs for user screens requested by 75% of users
JavaMySQLC++Technical UnderstandingSpring MVCPython (Programming Language)+8

San jose state university

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2021Dec 2021 · 3 mos · San Jose, California, United States

C++Technical UnderstandingData StructuresObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Debugging

Ahmedabad university

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Feb 2020Apr 2020 · 2 mos

  • Teaching Assistant in Course Fundamentals of Computer Programming
C++Technical UnderstandingData StructuresTeam BuildingObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Algorithms

IEEE Web Manager

May 2019Jan 2020 · 8 mos

  • Served IEEE Ahmedabad University student branch as web manager and committee member in organizing various IEEE Events by AU SB.
Technical UnderstandingHTMLPHPTeam BuildingWritten CommunicationJavaScript+2

Shriji technoaspire pvt.ltd

Software Engineer

May 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

  • Transformed a concept into a production-ready web application for smart electric meters, enabling electricity usage analysis and home automation, resulting in up to 20% electricity savings through app monitoring.
  • Optimized the UI using Redux with memoized selectors, achieving up to 90% performance improvement in rendering UI.
  • Designed and developed a regional language block coding platform used by 1000+ high school students and teachers.
JavaC++Technical UnderstandingGitTeam BuildingWritten Communication+4

Vnurture technologies

Machine Learning Intern

Jan 2019Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat

  • Developed “Fashion Recommendation System” using machine Learning
  • Algorithms, Data Analytics and Python Libraries. Unsupervised Learning (Clustering) was used to recommend Fashion clothes.
FlaskTensorFlowTechnical UnderstandingGitMachine LearningPython+3

Education

San José State University

Master's degree — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2021Dec 2022

Ahmedabad University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Information and Communication Technology

Jan 2016Jan 2020

Mount Carmel High School Gandhinagar

Aug 2011May 2014

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