About

Akshay Murarka is a Senior Engineering Manager at JioSaavn with over 8 years of experience in the field of software engineering. He is an ambitious and self-driven individual who is always eager to learn new things. Akshay has developed a keen interest in overall architecture design and end-to-end project conceptualization, development, and deployment. Throughout his career, Akshay has gained relevant experience in handling search systems from both the product and engineering sides and understands how each one affects the other. He has been involved in building solutions from scratch, learning new technologies, and team management. Akshay's technical skills include BigData (Spark), coding (Python, PHP), Machine learning (Tensorflow), cloud systems (AWS and Azure), search relevance (NLP, NER, NLU, SOLR), and overall system design and architecture. As an Engineering Manager at Jio, Akshay has been responsible for managing a team of 5 members. He has been involved in team building, managing and growth of team members (technical and personal), cross-team project management, roadmap discussions, coordinating with product, etc. Akshay has also conceptualized, prototyped, developed, and launched a deep learning neural network model for personalized search results ranking. He has worked on tasks related to defining the complete model architecture, deciding on relevant loss and metrics, analyzing and preprocessing of training data, training and fine-tuning multiple model instances, involving team members to productionize the trained model, and end-to-end automated training and deployment pipelines. Akshay has also been involved in planning the migration strategy, managing team members, and helping them with blockers, assisting them in timely completion of tasks, and providing relevant training to improve the overall understanding of the systems. Akshay's education includes a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and a Master's degree in Economics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Akshay's technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, Search, AWS, Azure, NLU, ML, NLP, Spark, infra, Python, Tensorflow, PHP, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, AI, test, and Frontend.