Akshat Bhargava
Senior Software Engineer at TikTok
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolAkshat Bhargava is a Senior Software Engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems at the intersection of product and engineering, currently optimizing core wallet backend performance at TikTok. He has strong full-stack chops across JS/TS and Java, with deep experience in backend architectures (Express/Nest, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and frontend frameworks (React/Next), and focuses on design fundamentals like extensibility, maintainability, and performance rather than chasing tech buzzwords. At Google Cloud Dataproc he built fault-tolerant monitoring infrastructure and instrumentation at massive scale (>250k nodes) and implemented GDPR-compliant data export capabilities. As an early engineering hire at a Series B startup, he led end-to-end feature lifecycles, observability tooling, and migrations, showing a rare blend of product sensibility and execution. He contributes to security tooling in open source (improving ElectricEye integrations) and brings an empathetic, team-first approach that prioritizes pragmatic trade-offs and rapid, testable delivery.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
CBSE BOARD PCM with CS, CBSE BOARD PCM with CS at Ramjas Public School (Day Boarding)Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
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Github Skills (19)
python10
security-txt10
security10
aws10
serverless10
cloud-security10
security-scan10
devsecops9
urllib9
compliance8
amazon-ec28
iso8
json8
cmd6
android6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jonrau1/ElectricEye
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
ElectricEye is a multi-cloud, multi-SaaS Python CLI tool for Asset Management, Security Posture Management & Attack Surface Monitoring supporting 100s of services and evaluations to harden your CSP & SaaS environments with controls mapped to over 20 industry, regulatory, and best practice controls frameworks
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to enhancing the security posture monitoring capabilities of the ElectricEye tool. Their work involved modifying existing integrations with services like Security Hub and PagerDuty to improve the handling of security findings and align with best practices. They replaced external dependencies (requests) with native Lambda functions, streamlining deployments and fixing formatting issues to conform to project standards. Additionally, they improved the alert and information formatting.
csvmonitorcloud-auditingleadsoar
montycloud/ElectricEye
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Continuously monitor your AWS services for configurations that can lead to degradation of confidentiality, integrity or availability. All results will be sent to Security Hub for further aggregation and analysis.
Contributions:56 commits in 2 months
monitoravailabilityaggregationconfidentialitydegradation
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