Akash Ungarala
Advanced Software Developer at Kforce Inc
Huntersville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAkash Ungarala is an advanced software developer with a decade of experience architecting high-scale, real-time backend platforms across gaming, media, fintech, and ad-tech. He specializes in Python and TypeScript and has repeatedly delivered reliability at scale—reducing live-stream caption failover from minutes to under five seconds for 8M+ viewers and maintaining 99.99% uptime for Niantic’s AdTech processing 2B+ daily events. Akash designs event-driven pipelines and observability platforms, driving a 40% reduction in Mean Time to Detection across 50+ teams via an OpenTelemetry-based SLO standard. He scaled identity resolution and data pipelines by 4x while cutting infrastructure costs by 30%, and routinely codifies best practices through templates, CI/CD standards, and security gates. A mentor and technical decision-maker, he improves team velocity and reduces incidents while staying hands-on with Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, Spanner/BigQuery, and modern web stacks. Based in Huntersville, NC, he’s open to senior/staff backend and platform roles and combines production-grade engineering with a knack for practical reliability improvements.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at CharlotteJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
English, Hindi, TeluguGithub contributions (5)
akashungarala/Online-Car-Rental-System
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
akashungarala/Gift-List
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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