Avik Kadakia
Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvik Kadakia is a Staff Software Engineer with 8 years of backend-focused experience building high-performance search and faceting systems at Walmart Global Tech. He has progressed through hands-on engineering roles from Software Engineer III to Staff, delivering scalable search backend features that support large-scale e-commerce navigation. Prior experience at Epic includes optimizing massive patient-data queries and cutting runtime of critical validation scripts by orders of magnitude, demonstrating skill in performance tuning and data-intensive systems. Avik pairs practical operational improvements with product-focused delivery—launching exact-match provider tooling and provider notification integrations—and has a history of mentoring and organizing technical programs since university. Based in Hoboken, NJ, he combines enterprise-scale system design with a knack for squeezing large datasets into sub-15-second responses, a less obvious indicator of both algorithmic rigor and production engineering discipline.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Regents Diploma with Mastery in Mathematics Mastery in Science and Mastery of Service Pre-Engineering, Advanced Regents Diploma with Mastery in Mathematics Mastery in Science and Mastery of Service Pre-Engineering at Martin Van Buren High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Hindi, Gujarati, English
Github Skills (6)
react2
editing2
web-application2
full-stack2
lists2
firebase2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Avik9/WireFramer
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:37 commits in 24 days
Avik9/React_todoList
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
Created a front-end only Web app using React.js that will provide the user with a means for making and editing todo lists. It also implements the jsTPS to allow undo and redo.
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
reacttodoistlistsreact-jsredo
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