Akshay Jain

Engineering Manager

Seattle, Washington, United States11 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led development of scalable data solutions at Grab.
  • Built recommendation systems impacting 100k daily users.
  • Expert in cloud engineering and data management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Engineering expert with a focus on data solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningData EngineeringCloud EngineeringData SecurityWeb DevelopmentFull Stack Development

Other Skills

ASP.NETAWSAir Analytics DashboardAirline Partner PortalAlgorithmsAzureBig Data PipelinesCCSSCSS 3Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Core JavaData Drift DetectionData MigrationData Structures

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Remitly

Engineering Manager

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Grab

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2023Aug 2023 · 4 mos

  • Led end-to-end ideation, prototyping, and development of a metadata management solution at Grab, successfully utilized by engineers, data scientists, and product leaders
  • Developed a scalable streaming data platform and ML ranking solutions, improving model performance and catalyzing experiment rollout time
  • Built a relevance tool to improve Grab Food search results through a user feedback loop, actionable insights, and ML model health monitoring
  • Created a robust tool for detecting data drift and alerting model degradation, widely adopted across multiple verticals at Grab
Metadata ManagementStreaming Data PlatformMachine LearningRelevance ToolData Drift DetectionData Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2022Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Grab is Southeast Asia's largest mobile tech company. We solve critical transportation challenges and make transport freedom a reality for over 620 million people in Southeast Asia. We believe everyone should be able to go anywhere - and trust that they can book a safe ride.

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

  • Built big data pipelines for Azure, Xbox and Windows payment systems using Cosmos, Azure Data Factory and SQL MI
  • Developed and scaled Encryption web service used across Microsoft Financial Organization to manage PII data
  • Migrated legacy data flow pipelines to Azure using Azure Data Factories, Data Lakes and Cosmos database
  • Prototyped, designed and developed Common Data Model which aims at easing discoverability of data and standardization
  • Developed payment caching engine using Azure Blob storage which saved us significant amount of money and processing
Big Data PipelinesAzureSQLEncryption Web ServiceData MigrationCloud Engineering+1

Expedia, inc.

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2016Aug 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bellevue, WA

  • Built recommendation system for Expedia Flights, used by ~100k customers every day
  • Developed “Domain Service”, a service hosted in AWS to retrieve domain information using data stores like SQL, Redis, S3
  • Designed and developed “Airline Partner Portal”, used by over 100 airlines to enhance their content on Expedia’s website
  • Migrating air databases to cloud for disaster recovery and for the application/service and database being collocated
  • Developing “Air Analytics” dashboard using AWS services like EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, Redis, Redshift, Aurora DB, etc
Recommendation SystemAWSDomain ServiceAirline Partner PortalAir Analytics DashboardCloud Engineering+1

Demand media

Software Engineering Intern

Aug 2015Apr 2016 · 8 mos · California, USA

  • Involved in development of "Society6", an online marketplace for unique arts and designs stamped on various products
  • Working on React.js, Redux, jQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP and MYSQL for full stack development
React.jsReduxjQueryHTMLCSSPHP+2

Ss&c technologies

Software Engineering Intern

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos · New York, USA

  • Building tools for support of G2.0 application, used by G2.0 developers and central support team
  • Working on Java, Spring framework, JSP, HTML, jQuery and CSS for full stack development
  • Using Sybase as the backend technology
JavaSpring FrameworkJSPHTMLjQueryCSS+2

Indus valley partners

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2013Jun 2014 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked on "Stratus" aimed at developing a portfolio management system
  • Used Cloud technologies to target mid-size hedge funds
  • Co-developed a working model for prospective client MSD Capital
  • Worked on JavaScript, jQuery, HTML 5.0, CSS 3 and MongoDB for project development
JavaScriptjQueryHTML 5.0CSS 3MongoDBFull Stack Development

Education

Harvard Business School

Management Essentials — Management

Jan 2020Jan 2020

University of Southern California

Master — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2016

D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2013

G.D.Somani Memorial School

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