Akanksha Deswal, Developer in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Akanksha Deswal

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Distributed Systems Developer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Toptal member since November 22, 2019

Expertise
Cloud EngineeringGolangPythonC++MongoDBPostgreSQLKubernetesMachine LearningLinuxGitJiraSlack DevelopmentVisual Studio DevelopmentSpring
Bio

Akanksha wears a variety of hats in the development of consumer-focused, scalable products. She built and scaled the control plane of Nutanix, completing projects in enterprise RBAC, reporting, and API gateway infrastructure using metric-based design and microservices. She currently works in the Azure storage team and also also built the merchant side platform for Amazon's buyback feature. She is also a data science enthusiast.

Portfolio

Nutanix
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, Apache ZooKeeper, Swagger, Kubernetes...
Amazon
Java

Experience

  • Distributed Systems - 3 years
  • Python 3 - 3 years
  • C++ - 3 years
  • REST - 3 years
  • Cloud - 3 years
  • Go - 3 years
  • Data Science - 2 years
  • MongoDB - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Azure, Visual Studio, Slack, Jira, Git, Linux

The most amazing...

...thing I've designed and developed is a patent-pending cloud pairing for Nutanix for its public cloud offering Xi from the ground up.

Work Experience

MTS 4

2016 - 2019
Nutanix
  • Worked on a patent-pending cloud pairing for the enterprise hybrid cloud.
  • Helped make Prism—a distributed control plane for Nutanix—scale. This includes scaling out the service, making various memory and performance optimizations, and enhancing service monitoring.
  • Led a six-member team in design, development, and testing of Salesforce Integration in Prism. The project was widely recognized for its timely delivery and quality.
  • Worked on data consistency in Intentful API paradigm. This was a completely new API paradigm designed within Nutanix, I majorly contributed to fix the data consistency issue as part of it.
  • Involved in design reviews, customer escalations, and mentoring of new team members which grew from six to 50 in my duration at Nutanix.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce, Apache ZooKeeper, Swagger, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Go, C++, Java, Python, PostgreSQL

SDE Intern

2016 - 2016
Amazon
  • Worked on the buyback project with the platform development (delivery experience) team.
  • Owned and developed the merchant side of the buyback platform by interacting with product managers during a limited time period. Exceeded delivery expectations in the short span of six months and in the limited capacity of an intern.
Technologies: Java

Experience

Salesforce Integration with Prism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjfF8emvRCU
Led six members team in design, development, and testing of Salesforce integration in Prism. The project was widely recognized for its timely delivery and quality. It is also extensively used in production.

Prism Central Reporting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdrt3_usYbE
Designed, developed, and delivered reporting on Nutanix. Completely owned the APIs for all the features within the project and contributed to other areas. Was involved in UX, data model design, and overall project design.

Xi Pairing [Patent Pending]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ped8wJcYF0Y
Cloud Pairing is a step by which on premise users can connect their data centers (private cloud) to the public cloud or other private clouds for DR and backup. Developed the feature from the ground up in a fast-paced and changing environment. The feature involved working with OAuth and handling DR scenarios.

The project required us to define cloud concepts like availability zones, logical zones, and physical zones for Nutanix's public cloud.

Data Science/Machine Learning Projects

I implemented several data science algorithms including Alpha Beta Pruning, Association Rule Mining, Decision Tree Pruning, and recommendation engine during my college years.

The link has source code as well as documentation for the projects.

Education

2012 - 2016

Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science

BITS Pilani - Hyderabad

Skills

Tools

Git, Jira, Slack, Visual Studio, Apache ZooKeeper, Envoy Proxy

Languages

Go, Python 3, C++, Python, Java

Paradigms

REST

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra

Frameworks

Swagger, Spring, Django

Platforms

Linux, Azure, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes

Other

Cloud, Distributed Systems, RESTful Microservices, Data Science, Virtualization, Storage, Machine Learning

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