Jul 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs · San Francisco, California, United States

• I work on Delta Live Tables (https://www.databricks.com/product/delta-live-tables), a declarative API that simplifies ETL. Since 2023, I've been the backend infrastructure lead for the team. Projects I’ve lead include:
• sharding our stateful service for horizontal scalability
• enforcing consistency in a distributed task management system
• zero-downtime API handling
• observability and operability in a distributed system
• Along with many other related problems.

Oct 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I work on the YouTube Trust and Safety Data Engineering team, where we build scaleable distributed systems that process and analyze massive amounts of data to identify and track spam, fraud, and objectionable content on YouTube.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• I'm one of two backend engineers on the Snap Publisher team (https://snappublisher.snapchat.com), Snapchat's rapidly growing self-serve ads tool. I work mostly on architecting and building scalable systems in Java.
• Software Engineer L1: March 2017 - October 2017
• Software Engineer L2: October 2017 - Present

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As an intern, I worked on using Kafka and Amazon Simple Queue Service to provide an asynchronous interface for notification delivery in our transaction processing system.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Mountain View, CA

• I worked on a number of large backend projects as an intern at Natero. One of them was a Redis-based system for caching queries to a Vertica database.
• http://aakashjapi.com/caching-with-jooq-and-redis/

May 2015 – May 2015 · 0 mo · Tyson's Corner, VA

• Was one of 30 Computer Science students chosen for a selective conference at Capital One's national headquarters. I went to a number of programming workshops and training seminars, networked with engineers and executives from Capital One, and took part in a rigorous hackathon, in which I, along with 4 others, presented my application to Capital One leadership.

Oct 2014 – Jan 2015 · 3 mos · Berkeley, CA

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Redwood City, California

• Worked as a full stack engineer at a rapidly growing startup
• Used diverse technologies as Node.js, Ember.js, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch
• Built out partnership with Ticketmaster; implemented their API into SpotOn’s calendar infrastructure
• Handled a number of scaling issues including MongoDB query efficiency and Node.js request handling, as startup grew 300% during my stay
• Pitched a number ideas to rest of team, many of which were incorporated into product