Mahak Gambhir — Software Engineer

Ever since my introduction to computer science in high school, I was strongly drawn to its logical charm and unmistaken determinism. It was right then that I committed to a life in this realm, come what may. As I explored the depth and beautiful complexities of my subject through college, I was obsessed with making the most out of it. This naturally led me to high performance computing, and the challenge of efficiently utilising resources by really getting to know and understand the insides of the hardware: disk and memory, threads and processes, and most importantly, CPUs and GPUs. The effort culminated with me completing my Masters’ thesis suggesting some improvements to problems pertaining to a particular useful data structure, graphs. But by now, I was eager to take this to the next level, not be limited to academia. Thus, I joined Samsung Research to work on providing millions of users a seamless video editing experience on (relatively) resource constrained mobile devices. The use of lower level libraries, allowed for not only better performance and battery life, but also scope to add more features like doodles, AR, and VR content. Besides media creation and consumption, an increasing portion of the ever growing tech populace was also being drawn to mobile gaming. I spent some time exploring the possibilities of lower level optimisations to make gaming more enjoyable. Yet, after almost 3 years, I was starting to feel I was letting myself be guided only by the needs of the users, losing touch with what lay underneath. And so I joined Arista Networks, where I discovered a new world which was not only much more resource constrained, but where every device also had to find its own way to communicate with its peers, with the first contact being the most challenging. I worked on making this process as easy as possible for the newbie, whatever setting it may find itself in. This journey though was abruptly cut short when a hard-to-pass opportunity to build a system from ground up presented itself in the form of an offer to work for Isima, a hyper-converged data platform. Here I not only saw performance create real life impact, but also how a small team of determined individuals can create something phenomenal. I saw my horizons broaden, realised the capabilities of computing, and my own, saw what can be achieved with efficiency always in mind. I sit unsettled with eager excitement to see what great adventure awaits me next, in this world of ever increasing possibilities and yet the very same foundations that I first fell in love with to power it all.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Software Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and Mobile Development.

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Experience: 11 yrs 1 mo