Akanksha Mahajan

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in optimizing large-scale distributed systems.
Significant contributions to RocksDB open-source project.
Strong foundation in Computer Science with a Master's degree.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and Data Management.

Contact

akankshamahajan15@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

C++Distributed Systems

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAndroid DevelopmentApache KafkaApache ZooKeeperCCassandraCilkPlusCommunicationData StructuresDebuggingDistAlgoFile SystemsGitInfrastructureJava

About

I’m an experienced SWE currently working at LinkedIn. During my time at Meta, I specialized in the RocksDB (an open source project https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki )—a dominant key-value storage engine in Meta's infrastructure and widely adopted across industries for persistent data storage and online query serving. Equipped with a Master's degree focusing on distributed systems and operating systems, and my internship at Nutanix in distributed systems, I am dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technologies to optimize performance and scalability in large-scale distributed systems. I am passionate about driving innovation and solving complex challenges in the realm of storage and data management. Graduated with Masters in Computer Science from Stony Brook Univeristy Courses taken : Operating system, System Security and Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Analysis of Algorithms and Fundamentals of Data Science

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 2 mos

Current Experience

Apple

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

FoundationDB

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Apr 2025 · 9 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Part of Storage team

Nutanix

MTS intern

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · San Jose, California

Part of Core Data Path team
Worked on distributed data-log abstraction on top of Nutanix VDisks to extend data log on multiple VDisks by using Nutanix object storage. This project will be a groundwork for various applications on top : pub sub, stream ingestion etc.
Technologies involved : Zookeeper, Cassandra, RocksDB
Language: C++
Nutanix U-Hackathon : Implemeted a FUSE file system backed by zookeeper to make zeus library language agnostic by allowing services to use file system functions to access Zookeeper information on cluster.

Mentor graphics

Senior Member Technical Staff

Dec 2015 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Noida Area, India

I was part of Runtime team which develops OS for Veloce Emulator.
Developed new features for power estimation utilities - Velsaif and and Activity Plot. ( C++)
Features :
Activity Plot: Enabled export of raw toggle count data and introduced Max Plots to visualize the
highest peak value against time in a trace zone.
Partitioned SAIF le generation by time zone and facilitated time-windowed waveform extraction
and SAIF generation.
Re-engineered waveform reconstruction for 2-state-nets and signals to use 128-bit computations,
which yielded a 10% performance boost.
Optimizations :
Introduced parallelism and a save-and-restore feature for grid-launched processes using a
Leader/Follower model. This speed up runtime power analysis up to 30%.
Automated restart of power analysis processes on failure during hardware emulation, eliminating
any need for customer intervention.
Implemented compression of system-wide temporary les using zlib to reduce disk usage to 30%.
Re-factored cascaded if-else statements to virtual classes and templates of C++, reducing computational
overhead.

Samsung

Software Developer

Jun 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida Area, India

Part of System Application team (Call settings, Dialer and Contacts app) for UI/GUI developement, new feature implementation and OS Upgrade for all the latest Android Samsung flagship devices and tablets.