Aakash Japi
Co-Founder at Tachyon
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAakash Japi is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems from startups to hyperscale platforms. As Co-Founder of Tachyon, he’s applying AI to automate security vulnerability discovery and remap tech support workflows, drawing on deep operational experience. Previously he led backend infrastructure for Delta Live Tables at Databricks, shipping sharding, strong consistency guarantees, zero-downtime APIs, and production observability. His background includes trust-and-safety data engineering at YouTube and architecting high-throughput ad systems at Snap, giving him rare cross-domain expertise in reliability, data pipelines, and fraud/spam detection. Trained at UC Berkeley, he combines hands-on systems design with product-minded execution and an appetite for pragmatic automation. Colleagues would note his knack for turning complex distributed challenges into maintainable, observable platforms.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyNew Hyde Park Memorial High School
Gujarati, Italian
Github Skills (23)
nyc10
text-files10
tantivy9
facebook-chat8
python8
plane8
search-engine8
facebook7
pip6
api6
packaging6
npm-package6
facebook-messenger6
nodejs5
virtualenv5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
logicx24/RedditMarkovBot
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 26 days
logicx24/Text-Search-Engine
Jan 2015 - May 2020
A crappy search engine for text files that I made on one of my many NYC-SF plane flights.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 4 months
pythonflightssearch-enginetantivyplane
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