# Akshat Jain > Senior Software Engineer, Meta AI Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akshatjain Hi! My name is Akshat Jain and I am an Honors Computer Science graduate from the University of California, Berkeley, a FRC Team 5427 alum, and an avid full-stack developer primarily specializing in JavaScript frameworks. As a global thinker, I pride myself on being able to scale products by providing efficient system designs and bring beautiful, crazy ideas to life. At Berkeley, I was involved in many organizations and activities: - TA for CS 61c: Computer Architecture - Involved in Undergraduate Research at eCal Labs - Founded a technical consulting club, PlexTech - Grown a Berkeley Startup - Wymbo, Inc. - Building Berkeley's official mobile application - Part of Payments Committee at Fintech @ Berkeley - General Member and Mentee at IEEE - A Basic & Advanced Python/Java tutor at Juni Learning Currently I work as a Software Engineer at Meta on the Meta AI Platform team. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer III @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | New York, NY Generative AI (Meta AI Platform) ### Software Engineer II @ Meta Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States Generative AI (Meta AI Platform) ### Software Engineer I @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States Messaging Infrastructure, Platform ### Undergraduate Student Instructor @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Undergraduate student instructor (teaching assistant) for CS 61c: Great Ideas in Computer Architecture ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States - MERN Stack: Built an internal full stack MERN application to interact with an EV charge-optimizing algorithm with secure authorization (JWT Tokens) and responsive UI Design. - AWS & Docker: Containerized the application with Docker and utilized AWS EC2 and DynamoDB to successfully deploy with a custom downtime-tracker tool with quality assurance test cases. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States - E2E System: Helped audit the illegal use of cookies against customer consent by developing an internal React application with a Java REST API (with test coverage in JUnit/ Mockito) deployed in serverless architecture. - IaC: Automated the deployment of Cloud Infrastructure with the AWS CDK in TypeScript for frontend hosting, RDS (MySQL) configuration and Lambda integrations, thus reducing cloud management overhead. - Latency Optimization: Resolved an issue of high cold-start times by setting up live Auto-Scaling for concurrency and optimizing for multithreading and asynchronous performance lowering average latency from 17s to 1s. ### Product Manager @ ScholarHub Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States ### Student Instructor @ Juni Learning Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | United States - Instruction: Instructed 30 students of all levels in full courses about the wonders of modern technology from basic Python and Java programming up to advanced USACO algorithms. - Curriculum: Made curriculum suggestions and additions leading to the improvement of 3 supplemental projects and enhancing the quality of teaching materials. ### Junior Software Engineer @ Polygon Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States Polygon is an early stage telehealth start-up providing better assessments and support for learning differences (e.g. dyslexia, ADHD). During my 6-month internship, I brought the client-facing platform from a beta-tested MVP to a production-ready technology ### Software Engineering Intern @ Visa Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States - Agile Workflow: Led internal intern team in creating a POC, Visa Curbside by implementing agile management ideals such as sprint planning/review and leading team standups. - React Data Flow: Utilized React’s Context library and the Axios library to dynamically load data from the back-end API across 25 separate endpoints. - Architecture Rewrite: Transitioned the existing Django architecture to a new FastAPI server, increasing performance by 300%, implementing automatic OpenAPI documentation, and scalable Pydantic data validation. ### Software Engineering Intern (Part-Time) @ Wymbo Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA - Quality Assurance: Analyzed 2500 user research reports and and used output to find and eventually solve CORS policy and React form validation bugs in specific browsers. - Dependencies & Deployment: Solved and upgraded 3 GCP dependency issues in React Native - Android leading to successful Google Play Store deployment. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Houston - Data Analysis: Built streamlined profile reports for millions of company open source vulnerabilities and customer data with Node.JS. This secured funding for an internal open source tracking application. - UI Updates: Worked under an Agile workflow to add 38 mini-features and UI updates for an internal open source tracking application (VB.NET and JavaScript), improving user research reports. - Desktop Application: Created a CRUD desktop GUI with Python (Tkinter) to paginate tens of gigabytes of sensitive product data. Wrote a separate Python script to automate its data cleansing and saved 2 hr/week of tedious manual labor. ### Founder @ BitsNBytes Tutorials Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Katy, Texas - Gathered and taught over 120 students over the duration of 1.5 years to participate in a Java and Python Bootcamp by conducting market research and direct marketing. - Hired and managed tutors as employees to expand operations and student reach. - Developed, designed and published a comprehensive web interface in PHP and MySQL to facilitate grading, online assignment submission and material distribution. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (Honors) University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 ### Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### High School Diploma Obra D. Tompkins High School Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshatjainx - Website: https://akshatjain1.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/akshatjain JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akshatjain/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23