# Akshay Kailaje

> Staff Engineer at Lyft

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshaykailaje

Software Engineer with experience in building and supporting highly scalable systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead Staff Engineer for Lyft's Partners org which owns B2B products, platforms & integrations. 
Focussing on long term vision & reliability of the services and products owned by our teams to help build a robust, enterprise-grade product, invoicing and user management XPs for Lyft's B2B partners.


Previously, worked on Lyft’s Observability team, where I was instrumental in launching Lyft’s new Logging pipeline to ingest Lyft’s service logs and make it available for querying and analysis. Earlier, I worked on a feature to enforce structured logging on Lyft service logs, that helped save the company ~2.4M$ per month.

AWS - Kinesis, SQS, Lambda, DDB, Flink, Kakfa, fluent-bit, fluentd, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Python

### Senior Engineering Manager, Data @ ipsy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead and Manage ipsy’s Data Infrastructure team of 7-8 engineers 

Lead the team to build ipsy’s 
- Internal Pub-Sub system based on AWS Kinesis to support real-time use cases for ipsy CRM and E-Commerce efforts.
- A/B testing system used heavily by the ipsy website, apps and personalization framework. 
- Event Tracking pipeline that collects metrics for key events like sign­ups, subscriptions, purchases, clicks and page views. Pipeline supports realtime and batch use-cases.
- Fact-Stores containing dimension and fact tables for ipsy's personalization and analytics team to support feature-set creation for building personalization models and reporting.
- Airflow as ipsy's ETL system that all engineers and analysts contribute scheduled jobs to.
- Pipelines to support Ads reporting, Funnel analysis, CRM

I was also instrumental in setting up
- Databricks as a Data processing platform for internal use. I was involved in comparing Databricks with EMR during the POC phase and later created and conducted a set of training sessions to train 20-30 engineers and analysts in Spark and Databricks.


Technologies

AWS - Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, EMR, SQS, Lambda, Athena, Datapipeline
Apache Spark (Scala, Java and Python), SQL, Airflow
Spring Boot, Grails

### Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead @ ipsy
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Full stack and Data engineering
- A/B testing
- Event Tracking and Pipelining data into Redshift
- Dimension and Fact modeling
- CRM

Technologies

AWS - Kinesis, Redshift, Glue, EMR, SQS, Lambda, Datapipeline
Apache Spark (Scala, Java and Python), SQL
Grails, Spring Boot
Angular JS

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Work on Zynga's Analytics Engineering team. Currently own and work on Zynga's data logging and real time analytics services which handles on average 10B records a day, and is highly used by all Zynga games. It's currently the backbone of Zynga's Analytics platform.

### Software Engineer @ Zynga
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Working on Zynga's Analytics platform. Currently own and work on Zynga's data logging and real time analytics system which handles on average 10B records a day.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon.com
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Work with the Platform Excellence Group. Web page analysis to measure client side latency

### Part-time Web Developer @ University of Florida
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Developing web-sites and tools for the Career Resource Center (CRC) at the University of Florida. I work on ASP.NET and SQL Server. The work includes developing web and windows applications for the center

### Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern @ Amazon.com
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
As an intern, I was working with the Platform Excellence group. I was given a project which was to add a feature to my team website and also present the feature in front of the immediate and extended team members.

I worked on Java and Ruby on Rails

### Part-time Web Developer @ University of Florida
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Developing web-sites and tools for the Career Resource Center (CRC) at the University of Florida. I work on ASP.NET and SQL Server. The work includes developing web and windows applications for the center

### Software Engineer @ Infosys
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009
Developed and tested a web application and windows service for managing access to secured areas (Data Center Access Tool) using ASP.NET 3.5, Microsoft AJAX, WCF, SQL Server 2005 and MS Team Foundation Server.


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Engineering
University of Florida

### Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akailaje

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Last updated: 2026-04-12