# Akash Srivastava > Staff Engineer @ Alt Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akash Engineering Leader with 10+ years of experience designing and building highly scalable distributed systems. I'm passionate about solving complex system integrity challenges, particularly within the commerce and fintech space. I believe the next wave of innovation will come from solving the foundational data issues that currently limit scale and introduce risk. My focus is on creating robust systems that ensure accuracy and efficiency at scale. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ ALT Jan 2023 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Early member / Lead Engineer @ ALT Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Lead Engineer @ Endpoint Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States • Refactored legacy Signin/Signup auth flow with new/refreshed UI/UX design and migrated to AWS Cognito. Added custom functionalities such as Keep me signed in, Tracking, Optional MFA, Longcode/Shortcode based on enterprises. • Spearheaded efforts on breaking monolithic React repository into multiple micro frontends for better stability, scalability, dependency/deployment independence across multiple cross-functional teams. • Utilized tools like Sentry distributed tracing, Fullstory, Segment, Kibana for error handling, event tracking and debugging. • Written exhaustive Jest unit test cases and e2e suite in Cypress helping uncover edge cases resulting in increased coverage from 81% to 94% and a drop of 60% in Sev0/Sev1 production incidents compared to last year. ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California, United States • Spearheaded the team to improve efficiency of infrastructure reporting platform, added new data visualizations charts like heatmap, sankey diagram, pareto plot utilizing React Hooks/ Redux/ Highcharts /GraphQL/PHP. • Implemented caching layer to increase data retrieval performance of UI by eliminating direct access to Hive tables resulting in decreased load time by 70%. • Built real-time query builder to propagate changes in the python pipeline with minimal code changes for ad-hoc use cases within minutes. ### Senior Specialist @ Deloitte Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 • Part of Deloitte's rapid incubator group, InsightStudio, best known for turning ideas into results and influence outcomes through data visualizations and insights in a short span of time using technical/management skills. • Inform, influence and sustain web experience in collaboration with Product, Engineering, Design, and QA teams. • Founding member and liaison between Deloitte/Facebook leadership, played a critical role in expanding Deloitte footprint from 3 to 25+ practitioners. ### Full Stack Developer @ GCP Applied Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 • Built an analytic platform using React/Node/MongoDB to provide real-time reporting from sensors installed on in-transit construction truck. • Modularized native tableau app to include SSO, D3.js, Dynamic filtering capabilities using tableau JS API resulting in reduced load time by 60%. ### Intern @ HealthEdge Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 • Application Development: Developed and debugged complex integration solutions for HealthEdge software and client environments using Java/JEE, Web Services, JavaScript, iWay and Healthedge specific database query language. • Realtime Monitoring: Designed and developed dashboard for process-monitoring, data visualization, reporting and workflow management of the project in Angular JS, Node JS and Socket.io using Restful API • Defect Tracker: Designed and developed the tool which can detect the exception in production log files and create JIRA/Salesforce tickets based upon the matched criteria. ### Software Engineer @ Accenture Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 • Business Development : Reduced turnaround time for sales representatives and enhanced customer services as a part of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) development team, which uses Siebel, a CRM tool from Oracle. • Application Development : Gathered client requirement, performed impact & value analysis and implemented the required solution using Java, JavaScript, Siebel configuration, Scripting, EIM using various Design Patterns • Agile Knowledge : Supervised a team of 6 employees as a Scrum lead to work in an Agile environment • Parallel Processing: Used multi-threading to allow processing of requests and responses simultaneously • User Interface: Enhanced user experience of legacy client websites using bootstrap for responsive design • Project Management : Managed project by supervising various inter-departmental activities such as deployment and retrofit activities, production support and knowledge transitions to support teams that included 100+ employees. • Recognition : Received the prestigious stellar award in Q1 FY14, for automating 19 out of 26 Reference Data items. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Accenture Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 • Change Management : Supported world’s largest Siebel upgrade (at that point) from version 7.8 to 8.1. • Requirement Analysis : Evaluated operational requirements and overall characteristics of applications. Upgraded and maintained detailed software functional specifications. • Automation: Automated deployment status reports and activity closure that increased efficiency of deployment tool by 40% • Recognition : Received the prestigious stellar award in Q4 FY12, for integrating activities involving four different applications Siebel CRM Application, IBM Clear Case, Toad, Putty into one using Java, Shell Scripting and SQL ### Intern @ Hewlett-Packard Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Job shadowed for development of a Java project Vehicle Sharing System, designed for the purpose of sharing vehicles for business tour by employees working in the organization. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science Northeastern University Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/iakash - GitHub: https://github.com/iakashsrivastava --- Source: https://flows.cv/akash JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akash/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22