Akash G.

Engineering Manager

Palo Alto, California, United States18 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in managing cross-functional and distributed teams.
Multiple patents in PaaS/CaaS and data processing.

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As an Engineering Manager at Google, I lead a team of engineers working on Cloud SQL, a fully managed relational database service that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. I have over 10 years of experience in engineering leadership, managing cross-functional and geographically distributed teams to deliver business value. Previously, I was a Senior Engineering Manager at VMware, where I expanded the team charter to be the Platform Foundation team in the Telco Business Unit, supporting three flagship customer-facing products. I also managed the application and platform teams building a predictive control plane for mobile networks, an AI/ML streaming data pipeline for network and application optimization. I have multiple patents in the areas of PaaS/CaaS abstractions, time-aware caching, and telemetry data collection, processing, and distribution.

Experience

18 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Cloud SQL Availability & Replication (Aug 2024 - Present)
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/high-availability
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/replication
Cloud SQL Data Migration & Integration (Feb 2022 - Aug 2024)
https://cloud.google.com/database-migration/
https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/import-export

Vmware

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2021 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

Expanded the team charter to be the Platform Foundation team in VMware Telco Business Unit supporting three flagship customer facing products.
Managing multiple areas ranging from deployment infrastructure, application orchestration, data pipeline, and API.
Quadrupled the team size to 12 strong engineers across the globe through developing strong technical leaders in the team.
Transitioned the team to evolve into a "remote-first" collaborative high performing team.

Engineering Manager

Aug 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Managed the application and platform teams building a predictive control plane for mobile networks - An AI/ML streaming data pipeline for network and application optimization.
Implemented software development lifecycle, release planning and operational improvements.
Managed the team priorities and backlog, working with product management, users, and cross-functional teams within Telco Business Unit.

Uhana

2 roles

Tech Lead / Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr

Acquired by VMware.
Lead the development of a software-based, data-driven platform that supports innovative new applications, improves user experience and reduces costs for mobile network operators.
Managed the performance and career development of 3 direct reports.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

Architected and implemented multiple cloud-native software systems at various levels in the stack. Micro-service applications, RESTful API servers, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting systems, service discovery, databases, streaming pipelines.
Evaluated open source solutions and managed them to perform critical functions in the stack.
Worked closely with AI/ML teams and developed the platform to manage various functions like training models to running production inference.
Familiar with Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), HTTP Live Streaming (HLS),Android ExoPlayer, and mobile system integrations.

Software

Software Engineer

Jun 2008 – Mar 2017 · 8 yrs 9 mos · United States

Various roles ranging from an early engineer at a few consumer startups, software engineer in derivatives division at Morgan Stanley to core systems infra specifically software defined networking at VMware.