Akash Narang

Software Engineer

San Jose, California, United States3 yrs 11 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable systems for E-Commerce and FinTech.
  • Enhanced user engagement for over 100M users through A/B testing.
  • Achieved significant performance boosts in multiple projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a FinTech and E-Commerce software engineer with expertise in scalable systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software InfrastructureDistributed SystemsTest Automation

Other Skills

Go (Programming Language)Vert.xJavaVue.jsKafkaElasticsearchTest Driven DevelopmentReactive ProgrammingScalable ArchitectureLinuxRedisApache KafkaVueFront-End DevelopmentScalability

About

Software Engineer with experience in building scalable, high-performance systems for E-Commerce and FinTech. Currently at TikTok (ByteDance), enhancing customer experience and platform scalability in Global E-Commerce Infrastructure. Skilled in distributed systems, and data-driven development. Passionate about solving complex challenges and delivering impactful solutions.

Experience

3 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 5 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Meta

Software engineer 2

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

Tiktok

Software Engineer

Sep 2024Jun 2025 · 9 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

  • Implemented the Free Shipping promotion project on TikTok Shop's Product Details Page (PDP), dynamically rendering voucher details and pop-ups to boost GMV, supporting QPS of 100K+ during high-traffic periods.
  • Boosted user engagement and conversion rates for 100M+ users by implementing A/B experiments to analyze user behavior, delivering swift and accurate solutions with server-driven UI, achieving faster release cycles and scalable codebase.
  • Contributed in redesigning the PDP module into a modular, scalable platform, enabling independent customizations of the view object reducing resource dependency, enhancing team efficiency, and modularizing the codebase for future growth.
Go (Programming Language)Software Infrastructure

Interactive brokers

3 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2024Sep 2024 · 3 mos · Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · On-site

  • Developed a new real-time system to track all live Forex trades, leveraging Vert.x asynchronous event bus to handle trading volumes of over 3M with 98% accuracy, integrating caching and persistent filtering based on user-defined criteria enhancing the usability and accuracy of system.
  • Designed a feature-id-based user settings configuration, enabling field-level updates to reduce JSON payloads and avoid schema conflicts, improving scalability and reliability for risk monitoring platform.
  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of a Vue.js-based library for Trade Monitors, resulting in a 60% boost in performance. This was achieved through DOM optimization, Vue reactivity, lazy loading, pagination, and component reusability, significantly enhancing the system’s scalability and responsiveness.
Vert.xJavaDistributed Systems

Software Development Intern

Jun 2023Aug 2023 · 2 mos · Connecticut, United States · On-site

  • Revamped Risk Management tool's codebase, achieving 60% performance boost and scalability. Elevated Lighthouse score from
  • 24 to 92 with DOM optimization, lazy loading, Vue reactivity, and component reuse.
  • Implemented Cypress-based testing framework for Vue.js Risk Management tool, reducing manual testing by 10 hrs/week, identifying 40% more defects, and enhancing risk assessment accuracy by 30%.
Vue.jsTest Automation

Software Engineer

Jul 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Redesigned a distributed, multithreaded trade posting system with Kafka, ensuring data consistency and reliability along with decoupling and asynchrony, allowing seamless processing of 90 million daily transactions.
  • Transformed Net Revenue Data collation with a sliding window system, leveraging microservices and streaming data principles. Achieved an 80GB to 15GB I/O reduction and daily runtime from 8hrs to 15mins drastically improving customer insights.
  • Automated revenue analysis reports for key customers, leveraging Vue.js UI, elevating customer analysis efficiency by 30%.
  • Contributed to Kubernetes migration by developing Python app for generating config files and scaling applications in containers.
KafkaElasticsearchDistributed Systems

Education

San José State University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Aug 2022May 2024

Vivekanand Education Society's Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2020

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