Akshay Nagpal
Tech Lead at Apple
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Nagpal is a tech lead and software engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for large-scale commerce and ads platforms. Currently leading global commerce platform efforts at Apple, he specializes in resilient microservices, transactional systems, and end-to-end testing for complex tax, royalty, and revenue workflows. Previously at Amazon he built observability and rules-driven ad transparency systems and automated GDPR-compliant customer data deletion, improving operational efficiency and reliability. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Columbia and maintains an active habit of building side projects—from Python libraries and R packages to 2D games and code-analysis tools—that reflect a broad curiosity across HCI, ML/NLP, and systems design. Known for mentoring teammates and shipping pragmatic tooling that reduces debugging and integration time, he blends deep engineering rigor with attention to product and user impact. Based in New York, he codes across Python, Java, Go and multiple cloud platforms while continuously exploring applied ML and data mining applications.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The NorthCap UniversityHigh School Math Physics Chemistry English and C++, High School Math Physics Chemistry English and C++ at Hansraj Model SchoolMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
3,025reputation
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Github Skills (62)
json10
caching10
python10
redis10
incremental-game10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
unlock10
in-memory9
key-value9
realtime9
data-structure9
nosql9
key-value-store9
vector-search9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akshaynagpal/jengAR
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 4 pushes in 1 month
akshaynagpal/w2n
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Convert number words (eg. twenty one) to numeric digits (21)
Contributions:4 releases, 84 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
nlppythonincremental-gamewordsdigits
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