Akshat Vijaywargiya

About Akshat Vijaywargiya

Currently working as a Software Development Engineer in Header Bidding team at Media.net,…

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer

   Media.net

   Jul 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Part of header bidding team responsible for developing and shipping code to client websites to conduct ad-auctions and render ads, by connecting with demand partners.Major Contributions:Feature Development: Customer Onboarding: Onboarded a major customer, contributing to a 100% increase in team revenue. Testing Framework: Developed a company-wide Automated Testing Framework for reducing manual QA effort and increasing reliability. Ad-Stacking: Engineered a feature to optimize ad slots by displaying multiple smaller ads in larger placements, boosting team revenue by ∼15%. Cache Clear Interface: Designed and implemented a unified cache-clearing interface, enabling system-wide and CDN (Akamai) cache purges. Office IP Whitelisting: Implemented a feature to whitelist sensitive server endpoints for office network and VPN requests. Video Ads Quality Improvement: Developed key features for enhancing user experience for video ads, including full screen rendering, autoplay, etc.System & Performance: Open-Source Contribution: Fixed a critical bug in Prebid, boosting affected customer revenue by ∼200%. Optimized Logging Backend: Carried out analysis for estimating pod’s logs processing speeds in GCP, accordingly setting up horizontal pod autoscaling limits, reducing pods crash rate by ∼80%. Swap Pipeline: Designed a Jenkins pipeline for rapid rollbacks, cutting revert time by ∼98%. Investigations: Conducted in-depth analyses on optimizing data serialization with Protocol Buffers in Go, diagnosing client-to-backend duplicate data issues, and resolving frequent auction timeouts for Forbes, etc.