Akash Desai
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkash Desai is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building full-stack features on YouTube’s live streaming platform at Google. He has a strong mobile and product-systems background from driving major revenue-driving initiatives at Zynga’s Words with Friends—designing achievement systems, personalized special offers, bundle/pop-up mechanics, and store badging that helped scale daily revenue dramatically. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he introduced modern Android architecture (Dagger, RxJava, Retrofit, MVP-clean) while also working on data-driven product experiments. His early research on string-matching algorithms reflects a foundation in algorithms and pattern matching that informs robust system design. Based in San Francisco, he blends product-minded engineering with measurable business impact and a knack for modernizing legacy codebases.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University at BuffaloBachelor's of technology, Information and communication technology, Bachelor's of technology, Information and communication technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
English, Hindi, GujaratiGithub contributions (5)
akash10nov/Geeksforgeeks-Problems
Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
akash10nov/Dynamic_programming
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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