# Akshen Kadakia

> Software Engineer at Google

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

Software engineer with 3+ years of experience. MS in Computer Science graduate from University of Southern California.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer III @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | San Bruno, California, United States
YouTube Client Infrastructure

### Software Engineer III @ Google
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States
Working in the Assistant Client Infrastructure team.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Flux
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Southern California
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Worked on implementing user onboarding experience for the Google Assistant Driving mode in Android
• Aimed to provide users with distraction-free driving environment while staying connected using voice commands
• Assisted and collaborated with team members to solve production accessibility issues beyond user onboarding

### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Southern California
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Assisted Ph.D. students with ongoing research by conducting experiments.

### Full-stack Developer @ University of Southern California
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
• Built a web-based tool for LEAN-LIFE using Vue.js for model training and for easier annotation of document with explanation
• Developed modules to support various explanation formats which improves document annotation accuracy with less data
• Maintained backend built on Django and model training module built on FastAPI & PyTorch to adapt new explanation formats

### Web Application Developer L2 @ Media.net
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai Area, India
• Brainstormed an efficient schema for storing unstructured and multi-category product data in SQL using JSON Schema
• Built a NodeJS based API to provide multi-category product feed with search, filter, pagination, and compare capabilities
• Collaborated with team to automate data pipelines using Django, Python, PostgreSQL, and Argo Workflows
• Developed a limited access portal for other teams to schedule workflows using ReactJS and Django Rest Framework
• Enhanced API search capabilities for 100+ live websites using Elasticsearch queries to ensure better feed results
• Conducted experiments to export widgets using WebComponents developed in Angular and distributed using CloudFront

### Web Developer L2 @ Media.net
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Actively maintained and updated product feed on multiple single category websites
• Maintained product feed processing pipeline
• Bug fixing and end-to-end testing on product feed API using Hapi.js in Nodejs, and deployment on AWS EC2 with Cloudfront caching and ALB.

### Chairperson @ DJ CodeStars
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India
Spearheaded the competitive programming club to conduct lectures and host programming contests. The club's primary goal was to educate students and to encourage them to participate in contests like ACM ICPC.

### Vice Chairperson(tech.) @ DJCSI - Computer Society of India, DJSCE
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India

### Developer Intern @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Summer intern at Content creation and Analysis lab, Educational Technology Department, IIT Bombay.
• Developed a software tool using Java programming to evaluate question papers against a set of learning objectives
• Implemented a game using JavaFX within the tool to train teachers to frame better assessment questions

### Co-Events Team Member @ DJCSI - Computer Society of India, DJSCE
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor's degree in Information Technology
Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

### Diploma in Information Technology
Thakur Polytechnic


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshenkadakia
- GitHub: https://github.com/akshenk8/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29