Akanksha Garg
Software Engineer 2 at Salesforce
India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkanksha Garg is a Software Engineer with seven years of experience building backend systems at top tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon, and currently Salesforce. A BTech student from IIT Kanpur and a Google Summer of Code alumnus, she has a strong open-source track record—contributing significant license-detection and analysis improvements to the widely used ScanCode Toolkit. She excels at improving data models, validation, and detection accuracy (notably via n-gram techniques) and has a history of shipping pragmatic tooling and tests that harden code quality. Her background spans full product lifecycle work from student-led web builds at IIT Kanpur to production services at hyperscalers, reflecting both entrepreneurial initiative and production-grade engineering. Colleagues describe her as a practical problem-solver who blends academic rigor with hands-on system design.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Github Skills (11)
copying10
regular-expression10
spdx10
cop10
software-composition-analysis10
licensing10
rights10
python10
testing9
automated-tests8
open-source8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
:mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and others generous sponsors!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 55 commits, 22 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Akanksha primarily contributed to the license detection and analysis functionalities of the ScanCode-toolkit. Their work involved updating regular expressions for copyright detection, merging code from the develop branch, and adding a new "is_unknown" flag in the license data model. They also implemented validation rules for license data and added test cases for new flag additions, as well as improving license detection accuracy through ngrams. Furthermore, they created a plugin for following reference files and updated the test cases.
licensingdependenciesdependency-graphcode-scanningprovenance
akugarg/OIR_Web
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Website for Office of International Relations IITK
Contributions:23 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
relationsreactiitkjavascriptfor-office
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