Akshay Lal
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAkshay Lal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building systems at Google focused on live and broadcast television advertising, VOD-DAI, and next-generation ATSC 3.0 stacks. He mixes deep Linux kernel expertise—device drivers, filesystems and kernel hacking—with product-facing work in ad platforms (Google Ads/DFP), enabling low-latency, high-throughput media delivery. At Google he has progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Staff and now Senior Staff, reflecting a track record of technical leadership and large-system ownership. Comfortable across embedded and cloud environments, he pairs kernel-level problem solving with pragmatic engineering for scalable ad ecosystems. An NCSU master’s graduate originally from Nagpur, he brings a rare blend of broadcast-domain specialization and core systems craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
Masters, Masters at North Carolina State UniversityRashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
Github Skills (3)
ruby-on-rails1
rails1
ruby1
Github contributions (2)
SomeRandomGuys/fantasy_football_rails_app
Aug 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 5 months
ruby-on-railsfootballrailsduhruby
a2l2/peloton-client-library
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Python Client Library to interact with parts of the Peloton API
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
apipythonpelotonclient-libraryparts
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