# Akhil Bhandaru

> Credit @ Robinhood

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akhilbhandaru

Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood (previously X1, acquired July 2023), Ex-Amazon, and graduate of Cornell University with degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, NY
- Currently the technical lead of the Money org's infrastructure team, responsible for:
    + Security
    + Scalability
    + Reliability
    + DevX
    + AI adoption 
- Formerly technical lead of the credit and banking platform team.
- Formerly owned all credit and banking infrastructure and security efforts.

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### Software Engineer @ X1
Jan 2021 – Present | Remote
Infrastructure tech lead.
Company was acquired by Robinhood in July of 2023.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Engineer on the Alexa shopping and grocery cart team, powering grocery item search, checkout experience and more.

### System Security TA @ Cornell University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, New York Area
Teaching assistant for graduate level course CS 5430: System Security.

### Analysis of Algorithms TA @ Cornell University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- CS 4820 : Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms Teaching Assistant.
 - Work with other course staff to host office hours, grade home work, and develop new and effective ways of teaching.

### Systems Programming TA @ Cornell University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ithaca, New York Area
- CS 3410 : Computer Organization and Systems Programming Teaching Assistant.
 - Spearheaded and Developed new projects and infrastructure for course.
 - Lead team to improve existing projects and labs, as well as add infrastructure to existing course software to support new assembly languages (i.e. MIPS, RISCV).
 - TA award received 2019

### Systems and Cloud RA @ Cornell University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Research with Cornell Super Cloud and Networks lab research groups, under Professors Hakim Weatherspoon and Robert van Renesse.
 - Worked on Ripple, under PhD advisor Shannon Joyner, which improved protein look up times using AWS Lambda and some basic machine learning.

### Sofware Engineering Intern @ Markforged
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
- Worked on the Slicer/IOT team, taking on performance and optimization challenges in the realm of computer graphics and 3D geometry.
 - Made some major contributions to internal tools, 3D part slicing backend/parallelization, and implemented the entire print bed 3D bin packing system.

### Co-Founder and Director of Operations @ Association of Student Tutors
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
- Meet with Educators and recruit new student tutors. Identify students who need help and develop a plan that will improve their education quality and increase achievement.
 - Schools contact me and work with my team to identify the gaps in the effectiveness and fairness of their current educational practices.
 - Ramped up staffing efforts to bring services to other schools in the Bay Area.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### High School Diploma
Lynbrook High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akhil-bhandaru-9b737995

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Last updated: 2026-04-01