# Akanksha J.

> Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Payments @Stripe | Ex-Google | Ex-Meta

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akankshaj

Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in backend API, platform, and infrastructure
development. Specialized in building distributed services, high-scale payments systems, and
developer tooling. Technical leader of 10+ engineers for 2+ years, with extensive experience mentoring full-time engineers and interns across multiple teams.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Sierra
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer - Agentic Payments @ Stripe
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
Tech Lead for enablement of Agentic tokens and payments. Built initial versions of agentic payment specs in collaboration with industry experts (Visa, MC, AmEx) that works with open source protocols such as ACP and UCP.

### Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform @ Stripe
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Staff software engineer (team of a total of 80 mid level and senior engineers) responsible for building backend cards payment processing platform at Stripe. Some of the notable projects involved building new Java backend services and external financial API integrations for processing payments at scale and improving latency of payments processing by >500ms at p95.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Building Cards Authorization Platform @Stripe

### Software Engineer, Core Payments Platform @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the design, development and launch of high impact projects within Google Payments Platform. Worked on latency critical realtime payments processing, payments authorization and capture, and payment methods filtering for product offers and discounts.

### Software Engineer, Consumer Payments Platform @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Led the design, development and launch of various payments platform initiatives for Google Pay. My work included building the financial transactions serving infrastructure, modernization of Google Pay backend integration with MasterCard, and Credit Card rewards data serving infrastructure.

### Software Engineer, Instagram Data Platform @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
• Developed a point-to-point realtime content delivery system for Instagram products, enhancing user engagement.  
• Engineered the User Presence infrastructure to manage online/offline activity across various Instagram features.  
• Modernized the Memcache platform and APIs by integrating them into Facebook's infrastructure, improving performance and scalability.

### Software Development Engineer, Amazon Music @ Amazon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Worked on Amazon Music Catalog backend services used by millions of Amazon Music  subscribers.
Developed, deployed and maintained web services and APIs in Java responsible for sourcing catalog metadata from dozens of sources and generate & process streaming events from metadata to be eventually persisted in a data store for customers’ use.

### iOS Platform Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in EECS
University of Michigan

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Delhi College of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akanksha-j-72049b50

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Last updated: 2026-04-11