Akash Sarda

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States6 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Developed a framework improving IoT efficiency by 40%
Designed load reporting for AWS DNS service
Contributed to Kubernetes project at VMware

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and IoT.

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Skills

Core Skills

Back-end Web DevelopmentPythonNetworkingBackend Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentApache KafkaBack-end OperationsC++ContainersDockerGoGo (Programming Language)GolangInfrastructureJavaMultithreaded DevelopmentMultithreadingNetwork DesignNetwork Security

About

I am a Masters in CS stduent at NC State University. I currently work as a Research Assistant, working in the domain of Serverless Systems For IoT under Prof. Muhammad Shahzad. I have a 3 year work experience working at VMware in the domain of networking, and have worked on NSX-T. I have also worked at a stealth mode startup in a agile and a fast paced work environment. I am proficient at C++, Golang and Python. My expertise is Networking, Backend Development and Distributed Systems. Apart from this I have won Hackathons, and am active in innovative research work. I have also contributed actively in the Kubernetes Project during my time at VMware. Education: Masters, Computer Science @ NCSU GPA : 4.00 Courses : Operating Systems, Computer Networking and Security, Internet Protocols, Parallel Systems BTech in Computer Engineering, from College of Engineering, Pune GPA: 8.68 / 10 - Done courses on Spring Core from Linked Learning - Done courses on Kubernetes Operations from LinkedIn learning

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Working on multi region strong consistency databases

Software Development Engineer 2

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 · 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Working at Authoritative DNS Nameserver Service at AWS
Designed and developed load reporting framework for PublicDNS Nameserver service of AWS to enable dynamic autoscaling of DNS Nameservers, which serves around 2 Million queries per second.
Spearheaded the effort to upgrade the kernel of the entire DNS fleet in all regions of AWS resulting in 10% reduction in latency.
Demonstrated Operational Excellence by mitigating and fixing the operational issues working on a system guaranteeing 100% availability.

Network SecurityNetwork DesignOperating SystemsBack-End Web DevelopmentNetworkingPython+2

Spotnana

Software Engineer, Backend

Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos · Hybrid

Apache KafkaMultithreadingBack-End Web DevelopmentBack-end OperationsPythonPandas (Software)+8

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

- Intern at Azure Core Storage

Python (Programming Language)C++Python

North carolina state university

Research Assistant

Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 · 4 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Developed a from scratch framework for deploying FaaS functions and implemented a dynamic function caching mechanism to improve efficiency for IoT based workloads by nearly 40%
Architected and implemented scheduling policies for efficiently executing FaaS functions on a cluster of edge nodes
Designed a scheduling algorithm for FaaS workload placement based on runtime of workloads using statistical modeling of runtime behaviors of workloads, location data, heartbeat data, node health metrics which yielded a improvement from current frameworks like OpenFaas by 30%
Implemented various distributed protocols like heartbeat mechanism in a master worker node configuration with gRPC and etcd database using Echo Golang Framework
Tech Stack Used: Go, Python, gRPC, protobuf.

ContainersDockerGo (Programming Language)Backend Development

Repute network

Software Engineer

Oct 2020 – Jul 2021 · 9 mos

Developed and designed Repute Gateway, a SaaSservice deployed in AWSwritten as a mesh of Go microservices, which catered to around 300,000 users, in a total engineering team of 7 engineers.
Worked on scaled out architecture of the SaaS service using messaging queues like AWS SQS and RabbitMQ.
Worked on fixing production issues, setting up logging systems and production systems using Kubernetes.
Developed asynchronous REST APIs, worked on an event driven architecture.
Developed helper scripts, metric collection system to track daily usage, performance metrics in Python. This resulted in reducingthe analysis time of the Operations team by 40% and successful customer interactions with the UX increased by 60%.
Worked on developing a peer to peer data exchange solution backed by the Hyperledger blockchain, responsible for developing the application in Java, Spring Boot.

Python (Programming Language)JavaGolangGo (Programming Language)Backend Development

Vmware

Member of Technical Staff, Networking and Security Business Unit

Jul 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune Area, India

Worked on NSX-T on the features like Inventory, Grouping Objects and NSX Container Plugin
Automated customer scenarios in Python and maintained for NSX Container Plugin for Kubernetes
Worked on features like Firewall Recommendations and Network Flow Visualisation in NSX Intelligence
Developed and maintained test frameworks using Pytest and Java for the entire QE organization in Networking and Security Business Unit at VMware
Experience in building and designing networks using NSX and vSphere, especially in software-defined networking in containerized environments of Kubernetes and Docker

Python (Programming Language)Networking