Akshat Pendharkar

Akshat Pendharkar is a skilled software engineer currently employed at Lyft since December 2023, focusing on digital ad infrastructure. Prior to Lyft, Akshat worked at Meta from November 2021 to October 2023, where significant contributions included developing an advertiser portfolio selection platform, consolidating customer service routing applications, and modernizing Facebook CRM. Akshat also gained experience at Capital One from July 2018 to October 2021, where accomplishments included building Apache Spark transformations and real-time features for transaction processing. Early career experiences include internships at The Washington Post, where backend APIs were developed, and a dashboard for monitoring API performance was created. Akshat holds a degree from the University of Virginia, completed in 2018.