Akshay Patel
Engineering Manager at Meta
South San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Patel is an engineering manager with eight years of leadership experience building high-impact consumer and developer-facing products in sports, media, and social platforms. Currently at Meta, he leads Productivity Insights to combine software engineering and data science for measurable improvements to developer experience, and previously drove Events product growth and distribution across virtual and IRL experiences. He has a strong track record scaling teams and systems—from founding engineering at SportsAction to leading engineering at The Action Network through an exit—and is comfortable spanning front-end, back-end, mobile, and data infrastructure. A Georgia Tech computer engineering graduate, he champions CI/CD, architecture-first engineering culture, and pragmatic 0→1 bets that connect product strategy to measurable outcomes. Notably, his background blends real-time sports data systems and consumer product growth, giving him both systems-level technical depth and product-led growth instincts.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Engineering, B.Sc, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMiddle School, Middle School at DPYA High SchoolHigh School, Electronics, High School, Electronics at Kishinchand Chellaram College of Arts Commerce and Science
Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (33)
aws-batch9
cuda8
recommender-system8
slurm7
pytorch7
iteration7
recommendation-system7
sharding7
gpu7
deep-learning7
launcher7
ray7
machine-learning6
python6
forge5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paksha/Algorithms
Oct 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
bobqywei/curiosity-driven-exploration
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:12 PRs, 25 pushes in 8 months
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