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Akash Parikh

Head of Experimentation at Uber (We are HIRING!)
ahp@alumni.brown.edu
Software engineer with experience designing, implementing and scaling high performance systems for various products (Google, YouTube, Uber). Experience in launching consumer products, building backend infrastructure and performant data pipelines.
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Work Experience

Uber

Engineering Manager
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Dec 2015 - Current

I run Uber's Experimentation Platform. Our goal is to take one of the fastest moving companies and make it move faster -- through the safety and insights of experimentation.

YouTube

Staff Software Engineer
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Oct 2011 - Dec 2015
  • Manage team of 10+ engineers building core commerce infrastructure for YouTube/Google Play Movies - Launched YouTube commerce products in 60+ countries - Led growth and expansion of YouTube Paid Channels (http://goo.gl/DMYBWk) - Launched YouTube Paid Channels (http://goo.gl/cBA4fN and ) - Led massive growth and expansion of movies and tv catalog - Led infrastructure design and integration for YouTube commerce and Google Play Movies (http:// play.google.com/movies)

YouTube

Senior Software Engineer
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Aug 2009 - Oct 2011
  • Designed and implemented v2 commerce infrastructure - Built and helped launch initial YouTube Movies offering

Google

Software Engineer
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Dec 2005 - Aug 2009
  • Designed and built Google networking infrastructure - Developed latency improvements for Google-wide traffic

McData, Corp.

Embedded Software Engineer
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Oct 2003 - Dec 2005

Software Engineer

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Jun 2003 - Oct 2005

Education

Brown University Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, September 1999 - May 2003 Akash Parikh Head of Experimentation at Uber (We are HIRING!) ahp@alumni.brown.edu

1999 - 2003