Akash Sharma

Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India6 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building planet-scale distributed services.
  • Led zero-day incident responses with significant impact.
  • Innovative in applying AI to enhance engineering productivity.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on security and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentAiSecurity

Other Skills

CC++Competitive CodingDeep LearningLaTeXLeadershipPublic SpeakingPythonReinforcement Learning

About

Planet-scale systems. Security-first mindset. AI for impact. I design and secure distributed services that handle trillions of requests daily—driving reliability, resilience, and trust at global scale. My experience spans launching critical features in Exchange Mail Service, leading zero-day incident response, and building robust, scalable architectures. Recently, I’ve been exploring AI to boost engineering productivity and streamline operations. I thrive on solving hard problems, mentoring teams, and delivering solutions that make a difference.

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Working on building robust and secure, planet-scale distributed services in M365.
CC++PythonSoftware DevelopmentAI

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2023Jul 2024 · 10 mos

  • • Worked on development of security enhancements in exchange server product primarily in the authentication and identity space. Led multiple crews working on infrastructure and product modernization initiatives.
CC++PythonSoftware DevelopmentSecurity

Software Engineer 2

Sep 2021Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Delivered multiple modern authentication experiences in Exchange on-premises servers, overseeing end-to-end engineering design, project planning, execution, and code reviews, ensuring robust, bug-free releases.
  • Led crews to enhance server security and managed responses to critical zero-day vulnerabilities. Have discovered and fixed new zero-day vulnerabilities.
  • Handled major escalations from large customers with executive visibility, ensuring quick root cause analysis and resolution.
  • Led a team in designing and developing an Azure infrastructure monitoring service, protecting resources in our subscription.
  • Contributed to team development by mentoring new hires and interns, and initiated efforts to create a vibrant engineering community focused on learning and product excellence across multiple teams.
CC++PythonSoftware DevelopmentAIDeep Learning+2

Software Engineer

Jul 2019Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Working in the exchange (Backend mail & calendaring servers) team.
  • Have worked on creation of new services and development across the server stack.
  • Enabled cross-cloud exchange hybrid mailflow during customer migration from O365 Blackforest to World Wide cloud preventing any hybrid mailflow downtime.
  • Resolved issues in extremely critical exchange 0-day attacks and contributed to mitigation tools released world wide to minimize impact .
  • Owned and worked on azure-based infrastructure deployment services (multi-machine exchange cloud deployments, etc).
  • Received recognition at SLT level for work done in above projects.
CC++PythonSoftware DevelopmentSecurity

Siemens

Research And Development Intern (summer)

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Developed an end to end anomaly detection software in time series data.
  • Software capable of learning continuously to adapt to changing trends and seasonality.
  • Work done picked up for business and patent application filed (given inventor credit).
PythonAI

The linux foundation

Google Summer Of Code

Apr 2018Aug 2018 · 4 mos

  • Worked on the Enhancement of Ipptool project of the OpenPrinting work group at the Linux Foundation as part of Google Summer of Code 2018.

Siemens

Research and Development Intern (winter)

Dec 2017Feb 2018 · 2 mos · Banglore

  • • Worked on developing a software based on reinforcement learning and neural networks to control the HVAC ( Heating, Ventilation and air conditioning ) and lighting system of a building with the goal of minimizing Energy consumed subject to certain comfort constraints.

Cdac

Summer Intern

Jun 2017Aug 2017 · 2 mos

  • Developed a software capable of extracting module interdependency tree in a FORTRAN project.
  • Received exposure to a basic concepts of various modern parallel programming paradigms:
  • OpenMP, Message Passing Interface ( MPI ), Hadoop implementation of map reduce, Cuda enabled NVIDIA GPU Programming

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science - MS (Online) — Computer Science

Jan 2020Jan 2023

Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

FIITJEE Junior College, Hyderabad

High School

Jan 2013Jan 2015

The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet

Jan 2011Jan 2013

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