Akshit Shah

Vice President of Engineering @ Mastercard

About

Hacker & builder. Believer in thoughtful risk taking & fail fast. Customer focused, data driven, outcome oriented professional interested in building products, distributed & high performing teams and systems.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Big Data, Process Improvement, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Team Management, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, Hadoop, Agile Methodologies, Amazon Web Services (AWS), C#, .NET, XML, Java Enterprise Edition, Web Services, Software Development, SQL, JavaScript, C++

Experience

Vice President of Engineering

Mastercard

2022-9 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

San Francisco Bay Area

Director Of Engineering

Mastercard

2015-2 - 2022-9 · 7 yrs 8 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead Software Engineer

Mastercard

2012-9 - 2015-2 · 2 yrs 6 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

- Worked closely with product and business team to prepare a product roadmap. - Worked with data scientists to introduce predictive modeling and improve offer performance. Deep understanding of the business and the tech stack - Added various features to improve offers targeting engine - Worked on migrating Truaxis Statement Rewards platform to Mastercard. - Worked closely with sales team to demo the product to customers as well as understand customer requirements to identify solutions.

Senior Software Engineer

Truaxis, a Mastercard Company

2011-8 - 2012-9 · 1 yr 2 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

- Design and develop the targeting/personalization engine to serve relevant offers to the cardholders based on their spend behavior. - Rewrite the batch jobs written using shell,python and sql statements to run as hadoop map reduce jobs - Setup & develop reporting infrastructure using AWS EMR, S3 and hive scripts - Worked with data scientists to introduce predictive modeling and improve offer performance. - Deep understanding of the business and the tech stack - Hiring, mentoring & code reviews of software engineer

Member of Technical Staff

Adobe

2009-1 - 2011-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

San Jose, California, United States

- Developed distributed image processing infrastructure using python and rabbitMQ. - Developed dashboard using actionscript/flash to display metrics. - Designed & deployed automation suite for different adobe libraries on vmware esx cluster. Tech Stack - Java, python, actionscript, distributed systems, nosql stores, aws, devops, tools and automation

Software Engineer

Vitria Technology, Inc.

2008-9 - 2008-12 · 4 mos

Sunnyvale, California, United States

- Responsible for maintaining and enhancing company website - Sole developer on internal Sales force automation system written in .NET.

Software Engineer Intern

Adobe

2008-6 - 2008-8 · 3 mos

San Jose, California, United States

- Developed internal tool to manage build history and release notes - Development using java and actionscript

Software Engineer

RingCube Technologies

2007-9 - 2008-5 · 9 mos

Mountain View, California, United States

- Developed automation framework using AutoIt for testing different applications on ringcube virtualization platform - Organize bug bounty and usability testing programs - Mentor junior engineers

Software Engineer

Aztecsoft

2006-7 - 2007-8 · 1 yr 2 mos

Pune, Maharashtra

- Developed test suite using C#.Net & RPF to test messenger protocol (MSNP) used by windows live messenger - Built a strong working relationship with customers including Microsoft