About

Lakshya Budhiraja is a highly skilled Software Engineer currently working at Google. With over 7 years of relevant experience, Lakshya is a Full Stack developer with expertise in Feature Development, Web Scale, Big Data, Realtime Streaming, Distributed Systems, and Infra. At Google, Lakshya is part of the Google Maps for Driving team, where he focuses on searching while actively driving. He has set up infra metrics reporting, experimentation, tracking, and dashboards. Lakshya has also added support for personalized nicknames to navigation queries and ideated and implemented multiple full-stack features for both the UI and voice assistant to better understand driver search intent while minimizing driver distraction. He has scoped out multiple projects, mentored junior engineers, and collaborated with external stakeholders on numerous high-impact features. Lakshya has also contributed towards hiring efforts and achieved the highest interview stats in his organization. Prior to Google, Lakshya worked as a Software Engineer at Instagram, where he was part of the Connections Ranking team as an Infra Engineer. He reduced peak CPU by ~10% by pre-computing and caching Suggested Users during off-peak and reduced CPU by ~10% using compile/link time optimizations, better data structures, and fixing bottlenecks. Lakshya also reduced Contacts Import latency by 33% and timeouts by 50% by moving to async writes, using concurrency, and caching. He set up performance measurement infra for code changes, and learnings from which were applied on a company level by the Core Systems teams. Lakshya also mentored interns and new engineers joining the team. Lakshya also worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he added a new explore tab to the facebook.com explore page. Lakshya holds an Engineer's Degree in Computer Engineering from DTU, where he graduated in 2015. He also completed his High School education in Science from Cambridge Foundation School - India in 2011. Lakshya's Tech Stack includes Software Engineer, Infra, Big Data, Search, UI, and Web. With his vast experience and expertise, Lakshya is a valuable asset to any organization.