Summary
Akhil Duggasani is a Software Engineer II with eight years of experience building scalable, data-driven web and backend systems across fintech and consumer platforms. He holds an MS in Computer Science from USC and has driven measurable impact at Sony PlayStation and FactSet—improving PlayStation Store click conversion by 72%, cutting personalization costs by 90%, and reducing price-display latency by 20x. Comfortable across Java, Python, JavaScript and C++, Akhil excels at productionizing ML models, Kafka-driven pipelines, containerized workloads on EKS, and high-coverage test suites. He combines low-level concurrency expertise for trading systems with product-minded front-end work in React, making him effective across the full stack. Based in California, he brings a track record of translating complex requirements into performant, testable systems and a knack for turning telemetry into real-time operational insights.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Board of Intermediate M.P.C, Board of Intermediate M.P.C at Narayana Junior College
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, Indian Certificate of Secondary Education at The Hyderabad Public School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at GITAM Deemed University
English, Hindi, Telugu