About

Avaneesh Rastogi is an experienced Senior Software Engineer at Google, specializing in improving billing experiences for small advertisers. With a systems background and a flair for technical simplicity, Avaneesh has made a significant impact on the internet industry. Currently, he holds the position of Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Google Ads, Advertiser Platform (Billing), where he is responsible for the end-to-end advertiser experience. Prior to his current role, Avaneesh worked as a Software Engineer III (L4) at Google, where he contributed to the infrastructure for Nest (DSPA) metrics. He also served as a Technical Lead, brainstorming ideas in the initial phase of the project, researching available technologies, and leading discussions for prototypes and defining requirements. Avaneesh also introduced the team to various new Google-internal technologies, which eventually led to the team becoming an end-to-end expertise hub. He has also mentored and onboarded three SWEs to the team and reviewed over 120K lines of Java code. Before joining Google, Avaneesh worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Zeta, where he facilitated the transition of three organizations' production infra to Kubernetes. He also improved the quality of the infra configuration codebase by eliminating hardcoding of organization-specific variables, ensuring compliance with DRY. Avaneesh evangelized open-source tech such as Docker/Kubernetes, wrote docs, and took multiple sessions. Additionally, he contributed major improvements to the SRE hiring process and interviewed over 50 candidates for Senior SWE positions over a period of 7 months. Avaneesh holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from MNNIT and has 6.52 years of relevant experience. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Java, Infra, SRE, Frontend, Backend, Kubernetes, and Docker. With his expertise and experience, Avaneesh is an asset to any organization he works with.