2025 — Present
Daksh Pokar
Software Engineer
Hi I'm Daksh, a software engineer building for 4+ years who likes turning messy, large-scale problems into systems that feel simple. Most days that means distributed backends, clean APIs, and interfaces that get out of the way.
Go·Python·TypeScript·Distributed Systems
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Work
Aug 2024 — May 2025
Champaign, IL, United States
Worked on Accessibility in Data Science with Dr. JooYoung Seo.
Jun 2024 — Aug 2024
Manassas, VA, United States
Worked on making the onboarding time faster for new organizations on the Insurance Products.
Nov 2020 — Jan 2024
Gurgaon, India
Led development of direct-to-consumer logistics SaaS products that surpassed a million downloads.
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Projects
2024
HyDFS — Distributed File System
A scalable distributed file system with SWIM-based failure detection and a distributed grep that pulls logs from any machine through one client.
GoDistributed SystemsSWIM
2024
RainStorm — Stream Processing
A real-time stream processing framework inspired by Storm and Spark Streaming, with exactly-once delivery via ID-based dedup and state persistence — matching Spark at 10k+ records.
GoStreamingFault Tolerance
2020
Drop A Doc
A document-digitizing mobile app: a Bi-LSTM key-entity extractor at 92% accuracy and on-device OCR that cut processing time ~94% and cost ~91%, serving 1,000+ daily users.
FlutterDjangoMLOCR
2019
Task Manager
Task Manager is a web-based Django application that allows project managers to effectively manage and handle their teams by monitoring and analyzing the status of each task allotted to members of the team created.
DjangoBootstrap
2024
Suite Mate
A web application enabling users to discover their ideal roommates and allows them to find properties listed by various leasing companies or their agents. Made using Flask, and MySQL without any ORM & NextJS.
PythonMySQLFlaskNextJS
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About
I have 4+ years of experience building scalable web and mobile products.
Today I'm a software engineer at Meta on the Threads Monetization team, building the backend that delivers ads across billions of requests a day — the kind of large-scale, reliability-first systems work I love.
I care about reliability, the details of a good developer experience, and design that respects the person on the other side of the screen.
Outside of work you'll find me playing cricket, gaming, watching movies, or going down a rabbit hole on distributed systems.
Education
Master of Computer Science
2024 — 2025University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
GPA 4.0 · Distributed Systems, Cloud, ML, Databases
B.E. Computer Engineering
2016 — 2020Pune Institute of Computer Technology
GPA 3.96
Recognition
- Exceeded Expectations — Performance Rating for 2025 at Meta
- Shining Performer 2023 — best engineer for multiple consecutive quarters at Shipsy.
- 3rd Prize, Axis Bank AI Challenge — signature verification.
Toolbox
Languages
PythonTypeScriptGoJavaC++SQLDart
Backend
Node.jsExpressNestJSDjangoFlaskGraphQL
Data
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisNeo4jApache SparkHadoop
Frontend & Mobile
ReactNext.jsTailwindFlutterReact Native
Infra & Tools
DockerKubernetesAWSGCPJenkinsGit