Akash Agrawal

Qualifications: - Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, San Diego - 8+ years of experience in software development, testing and launching products - 3+ years of experience designing and laying out architecture for robust and fault tolerant back end distributed systems for consumer-facing software applications - Excellent programming skills in Golang and proficient in Python, C/C++ - Break down ambiguous product requirements into iterative deliverable stages with experience of successful execution - Acts as a bridge between Product and Engineering Manager, Designers and Developers and know how to take a product from A-Z with seamless UX always being the end goal - Create new services from scratch using micro-service architecture that contributes to company revenue and affects millions of users globally Projects: - Build, Scale and Own Tesla Cross Channel Communication Platform handling 10M+ real time customer communications every day across the globe, across multiple channels like SMS, Email, Tesla Inapp messaging - Build from ground up back end applications for Tesla Marketing Platform fueling customer outreach campaigns, also used during time of humanitarian crisis - Developed Tesla's in house Sales Management Platform handling all aspects from Lead generation to Customer retention - Enhanced Software Defined Networking protocols used in Viasat's Open vSwitch Leadership: - I am an emphatic mentor and engaging tech lead who prioritize helping fellow engineers to grow their technical depth and interpersonal skills Interests: - Software Development and Engineering, Business innovation, Entrepreneurship - Software Design, Distributed Systems, Asynchronous Communication, Data Analytics and Visualization - Network Virtualization including OpenVSwitch, OpenFlow, Software Defined Networking - Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles Technologies: - Go, Python, C++, - Cassandra, ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch DB, Opensearch DB, MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, ClickHouse - RabbitMQ, Kafka, Kafka Connect - Splunk, Grafana, APM, Kibana - Netflix Conductor, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, MATLAB, Network Simulation, IEEE 802.11, Raspberry Pi, IPerf, Wireshark Hobbies: - Solving IQ puzzles, Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball, Gardening and Window Shopping