Akanksha Dara
Software Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkanksha Dara is a backend software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud infrastructure and developer tools, currently contributing to Apple Services Engineering in Mountain View. She has a strong academic foundation with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook and a B.E. from BITS Pilani, and a demonstrated research background in large-scale language modeling and HPC from her time at the University of Melbourne. Her career includes multiple roles at Apple and a stint at Snap’s Core Developer Tools team, reflecting deep familiarity with scalable systems and developer workflows. Known for optimizing performance at scale, she has hands-on experience parallelizing models to process corpora on the order of billions of tokens—a detail that underscores both her systems and research chops.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigh School, CBSE, High School, CBSE at Modern Vidya Niketan, FaridabadMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.97/4.00, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.97/4.00 at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
akankshadara/Davies_Bouldin_Index_KMeans
Apr 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
vdivakar/Audio-analysis-for-weighting-words-of-a-speech
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
retrievalinformation-retrieval
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