Akshay Bharadia

About Akshay Bharadia

Lead architect for systems powering FTV Channels app ), which is available across Amazon device families including FTV, Tablets and Echo family of devices- Evolved FTV Channels to a $124M and 11M+ customers business through ad monetization- Designed systems for partner onboarding, content ingestion, recommendation, discovery playback and monetization- Consolidated systems into wider FTV services to unify the technical stack, defining a multi year migration plan- Bootstrapped core services for monetization through display ads on various FTV screens, with support for multi tenancy. These services later evolved seamlessly to support display ads on Tablets- Led the GenAI adaption across job roles with primary focus on SDLC- Led a team of 30+ engineers, growing engineers across levels- Built a side project to learn end to end process of managing a business, under the name of Lite Pocket Deals This is one stop place to discover working Amazon promo codes. It generates 2K unique monthly visitors- Patent for the idea of bundling active script with display element of an ad to detect if ad was blocked and if yes, why it was blocked.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Amazon

   Feb 2020 — Present · US

   Tech Lead for the org building display advertising and 1P video experiences on FTV devices.

Education

• Govindrao Junior College

  HSC

  2002 — 2004

• Shivaji University

  BE, Computers

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• Rest
• Design Patterns
• C++
• Apache Pig
• Shell Scripting
• Sql
• Linux
• Distributed Systems
• Object Oriented Design
• Algorithms
• Software Development
• Debugging
• Data Structures
• Scala
• Hadoop
• Java
• Big Data
• Hive
• C
• Programming
• Scalability
• Redis
• Perl