Shyam Akirala
Senior Staff Engineer at Coupang
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolShyam Akirala is a Senior Staff Engineer based in Bengaluru with 10 years of experience designing and operating high-throughput distributed systems across search and supply-chain domains. He has led and mentored large engineering groups (20–50+), driven architectural decisions, and built platforms that scale to millions of QPS with low latency and multi-datacenter active-active setups. At Flipkart he shipped semantic and multimodal search capabilities, dramatically shrank data footprints (300 GB to 150 MB) and open-sourced Flux, an event-driven workflow system now running millions of workflows per day. Known for pragmatic reliability work—bootstrap optimizations, RocksDB-based feature stores, and node coordination for replication—he blends hands-on coding with strategic technical leadership. Now at Coupang, he continues to focus on distributed systems, scalability, and platform design while mentoring large teams to operational excellence.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech CSE, B.Tech CSE at Kakatiya Institute of Technology & Science, Yerragattu Hillocks, Bheemaram, Hasanparthy, Warangal
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
async9
reactive-programming9
scalable9
reactive9
event-driven9
babashka7
leiningen4
clojure3
clojurescript3
google-guice1
concurrent1
guice1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flipkart-incubator/flux
Feb 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 541 commits, 76 PRs in 5 years 10 months
workflowscalablereactive-programmingreactive-systemstateful
shyamakirala/misc
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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