Akanksha Deswal

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable cloud services.
Proven track record in distributed systems development.
Innovative solutions for enterprise cloud challenges.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Services Architect with a focus on scalable distributed systems.

Contact

akanksha.deswal@devrev.ai LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ServicesDistributed SystemsSoftware DevelopmentUser Interface Design

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAzure FilesBuyback projectCC#C++CRUD operationsCloud pairingComputer GraphicsData MiningData StructuresDistributed control planeFile metadataGraphical user interfaceHTML

About

I enjoy wearing different hats while building consumer-focused, scaleable products. Continuously striving to be a better engineer. My current areas of interest include distributed systems and cloud services. Founding engineer at DevRev (SaaS platform), working on Identity and more. Have worked on control plane for on-premise cloud - Nutanix and data plane for second largest public cloud - Azure.

Experience

Devrev

Head of Engineering, India

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Microsoft

Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Team: Azure Core Storage
Worked on design, development and roll out of features for Azure Files. Azure Files is a fully managed distributed file system in the cloud accessible through SMB, NFS and REST protocols.
Designed and implemented Backfill to migrate File metadata from blob to namespace side. This
is needed to optimize List operation on Files. The migration task is designed to ensure
correctness and migrate millions of files with minimal impact on live file operations.
Worked on Share/Snapshot Lease feature which helps customers lock shares for delete and update operations. This feature is used by Azure Backup to prevent accidental deletion of shares.

Azure FilesSMBNFSRESTFile metadataList operation+3

Nutanix

Member of Technical Staff 4

Jul 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Xi
1. Worked on cloud pairing for the enterprise hybrid cloud (Xi) [PATENT Granted]
Prism
1. Worked on making Prism (Distributed control plane for Nutanix) web-scale. This includes scaling out the service, making various memory and performance optimizations, enhancing service monitoring, etc.
2. Lead development of Salesforce Integration with Prism.
3. Worked on Reporting (configurable and customized reports for data center resources) in Prism.
4. Worked on data consistency in Intentful API paradigm.

Cloud pairingDistributed control planeSalesforce IntegrationReportingIntentful APICloud Services+1

Amazon

Software Development Engineer - Intern

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos · Bangalore, India

At Amazon I got an opportunity to work on Buyback project with Platform Development (Delivery Experience) team.
Buyback is a feature through which customers can get a discount on their new purchase in exchange of an old item.Buyback partner quote price for different old items and the best offer is selected to be shown to the partner. The project supports buyback feature across multiple categories.
I worked to build a Buyback Partner Market Place Portal - a graphical user interface which provides the features which can be broadly classified as follows-
1. Managing the partner database through various CRUD operations.
2. Uploading Buyback partner offers.
2. Managing inclusion, exclusion criteria through exception lists and other internal operations.
3. Reporting, mailing and listing features for Buyback Partners.

Buyback projectCRUD operationsGraphical user interfaceReportingSoftware DevelopmentUser Interface Design