Summary
Akshara Nigam is a backend engineer with 8 years of experience building and deploying production services using Golang, Python, Java and MySQL, currently a Member of Technical Staff on Salesforce’s Lightning Instrumentation team. She has driven growth and personalization initiatives at Disney+ Hotstar—from experimentation frameworks and YouTube-like feeds to GDPR-focused data removals and cross-region data migrations—demonstrating strong product-scaling instincts. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling, she routinely leverages AWS, Terraform, SQS, Grafana and observability stacks like Coralogix to ship resilient systems. Her work spans building consent and partner orchestration services to reducing login latency via network-auth integrations, showing a mix of customer-focused and infrastructure-first thinking. She started in embedded and research projects (IIT Kanpur traffic simulator) and progressed through internships and mentorships at Amazon and ZopSmart, reflecting a hands-on learning path. Colleagues value her curiosity for debugging-driven growth and pragmatic approach to turning experiments into reliable platform features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
St. Mary's Convent High School
B.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology
French, English, Hindi