Akash A.

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VP of Engineering @ Media.net
Bengaluru, KA, IN
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, India
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About Akash A.

As the Senior Director of Engineering at Media.net, I lead product development efforts for multiple products in the programmatic AdTech space, with a focus on creating an omnichannel digital ads marketplace that serves any ad format. With over 18 years of experience in leading product development, I have a proven track record of delivering critical projects on time and with the highest quality.In my current role, I oversee the engineering solution for a multi-hundred million USD business that handles close to 150 billion ad requests and 800-900 billion ad responses per day, and is growing at a steep rate. I have built and managed high-performance and organized teams from scratch, and implemented processes that increase long-term productivity and goal achievement. I have also developed highly scalable distributed systems that run and perform successfully in cloud and co-location environments. As a certified scrum master, I apply agile methodologies and best practices to ensure efficient and effective collaboration and communication within and across teams. I am a persistent, compassionate, and fearless leader who is passionate about building innovative and impactful products in the AdTech domain.

Akash A.'s Current Company Details
Media.net

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VP of Engineering
Bengaluru, KA, IN
Website:
media.net
Employees:
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Akash A. Work Experience Details
  • Media.Net
    Vp Of Engineering
    Media.Net
    Bengaluru, Ka, In
  • Media.Net
    Senior Director Of Engineering
    Media.Net Jan 2021 - Present
    Dubai, Dubai, Ae
    Media.net is a global advertising organization. I lead product development efforts for multiple products in the programmatic AdTech space. Some of the products are Digital Ads Market place, Ad Quality System, Prebid Server, Brand Safety System, and Audience Platform, Our digital Ads Marketplace is an omnichannel product and can serve any digital ad format. It currently serves 100-120 billion ad requests from multibillion users every day. We make around 600-800 billion outbound HTTP requests in real-time. As of now, we are present in 7 locations across the globe with a rapidly growing volume.On the other side, we make sure to take care of the brand value of our customers and run millions of rules in sub-millisecond time for each response. We also analyze every ad passed through our system to give a better user experience.
  • Media.Net
    Director Of Engineering
    Media.Net Dec 2015 - Dec 2020
    Dubai, Dubai, Ae
  • Vdopia, Inc.
    Associate Director Of Engineering
    Vdopia, Inc. Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Build video ad exchange from scratch that start with minimal volume to 5+ billions ad request daily and almost 15 outgoing calls per ad request. All that was in real time.I was taking care of all the revenue generating engineering. I am responsible for the new age mobile video exchange, which handles billions of adrequest daily and serve them in real-time collecting responses from multiple advertisers. I also look after desktop and other online products.I am leading the engineering solution for the programmatic deliveries at Vdopia. In this role, I am responsible for the design and architecture, discussion with various stack holders, defining product and engineering priorities. We are thriving to be among the leaders in video advertising on mobile and I am responsible for strategic implementation for this goal.Handling a very enthusiastic team of developers, who strive for building highly-scalable, fault-tolerant systems that process information at blazing (millisecond) speeds.I am also extending the team as of now. So please feel free to reach me if you are looking for a challenging role.
  • Vdopia, Inc.
    Engineering Manager
    Vdopia, Inc. Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
    San Francisco, California, Us
    I am leading a team of developers building a video ad-exchange. I am responsible for engineering and technology for Vdopia’s biggest launch and also responsible for people and process management. I played instrumental role in architecting the system capable of taking billions of request daily. Each request here has many outbound calls present.In this role, I need to work with different publishers and advertisers as well on a daily basis. I am constantly working directly with CTO and CEO as this is the most impactful product for company roadmap.Currently, I am working on high volume with accuracy and focused towards growth and higher efficiency for ads platform. Also we are focusing on a lot of value addition in terms of feature which help our all the advertisers and publishers on our marketplace.
  • Linkedin
    Principal Engineer
    Linkedin Jul 2010 - Jul 2014
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    I lead backend team at SlideShare. My main responsibilities are:• Strengthen core conversion part and internal infrastructure of Slideshare Core.• Architect conversion solution and cloud infrastructure.• Worked extensively using S3, SQS and EC2, RDS, SNS, EBS and other services provided by Amazon Web Services.• Reducing cost of various service providers.• Building self scalable automated architecture for high performance distributed systems.• Working continuously on improving conversion quality and user experience for attracting more traffic.• Handling reuploads, privacy concerns of Slideshare users.• Managing spam fighting efforts at Slideshare.• Slideshare-Linkedin integration.HTML5 conversion:Architected, lead and developed Slideshare’s new HTML5 conversion stack from scratch. I lead the project and designed the whole architecture for the same including front-end, backend and operational infrastructure.Image Conversion:Architected, lead and developed Slideshare’s image conversion stack from scratch. A complete distributed system with rest of conversion formats.Performance and quality of conversion: Derived performance efforts at Slideshare. This project reduced Slideshare median conversion time from more than 1 minute to less than 2 seconds.Reuploads and privacy level:Slideshare is the only site, which let you edit and reupload your files keeping URLs and other analytics intact. I architected and developed infrastructure for reuploads and privacy level changes for slideshows.Skynet project:This project was to monitor, analyze, scale, and maintain a system in the Cloud. I was part of the design team. This let us get data for millions of event every day and make decision based on that.Spam control:Currently working on addressing spam at Slideshare. In last few months, many systems are already in place and we are still building and testing some of other measures to control spam.
  • Alcatel-Lucent
    Senior Engineer
    Alcatel-Lucent Apr 2009 - Jul 2010
    Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi
    I was a member of Call Processing team in Noida Centre of Alcatel-Lucent India. We are developing a NGN wireless soft switch. I was a member of Call Processing team and responsible for all Supplementary Services and Lawful interception along with other development activities.
  • Adobe Systems India
    Member Of Technical Staff
    Adobe Systems India Jul 2006 - Dec 2008
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    I worked as a member of Print Group at Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd. My work involved developing printing solutions for PS based commercial printers(CPSI). I worked on various modules like PDF to PS conversion, PS RIP, Normalizer etc.Developed various features for different OEM customers. Different work on every area of Adobe print solutions.Developed an intelligent image processing tool for Adobe's new generation PDF print engine APPE (Adobe PDF Print Engine). This tool has reduced 98% effort of QA team. Used openCV and libtiff libraries.Mentor an intern came for academic internship for 3 months.Worked on Adobe Normalizer, an API which allows developers to quickly and easily convert EPS and PS files to PDF.64 Bit porting: Done with 64 bit porting of Normalizer.I was a part of the team that shipped CPSI 3018.101 and 3019.101.
  • Alcatel-Lucent
    Software Engineer
    Alcatel-Lucent May 2005 - Jul 2006
    Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi
    Alcatel Development India was my first Job just after completing my Engineering from one of India's Premier institute MNNIT. I Had ownership of many modules in a short tenure like SPM, supplementary services, Performance Pegs. I developed various features for product and solved many problems in on-site and off-site UMTS soft switches. Also responsible for Call Processing related on-site problem report, issues in System testing and Integration Testing and Load and Stress testing. I have done various code review e.g. CLIP/COLP feature, Emergency call Display. Thoroughly involved in evaluating RDS and making High Level Design Documents.Below are some features, I developed at Alcatel:(1) Location Number Handling in Spatial WSS (Feature Prime)(2) MultiRAN support for Spatial WSS (Developer)(3) Alcap Removal (Developer)(4) Geographical Information Support for WSS (Feature Prime)

Akash A. Skills

C++ Linux Distributed Systems Algorithms Cloud Computing Agile Methodologies Amazon Web Services Software Development Scrum Data Structures Nosql Open Source Pdf Software Design Mysql Team Management Document Conversion Leadership Large Scale Systems Online Advertising Software Architectural Design Product Development Product Management Management Adtech Programmatic Media Buying Real Time Bidding Redis Amazon Simple Notification Service C Ruby Html 5 Ruby On Rails Html5 Unix

Akash A. Education Details

  • Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
    Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
    E&C Engineering
  • B.L.Jain Intermediate College
    B.L.Jain Intermediate College

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Akash A.'s current role is VP of Engineering.

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Akash A. attended Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology, B.l.jain Intermediate College.

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Akash A. has interest in Social Services, Children.

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Akash A. has skills like C++, Linux, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Cloud Computing, Agile Methodologies, Amazon Web Services, Software Development, Scrum, Data Structures, Nosql, Open Source.

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Akash A.'s colleagues are Ika Syafiqqa, Ishani Pathak, Ankur Dhawan, Dhruv Jain, Kim Chau Nguyen, Paavan Panchal, Rahul Singh.

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