Akash Babu
Staff Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolAkash Babu is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and implementing high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed systems and telemetry pipelines. He combines architecture-level thinking with hands-on coding in Java and Go, having optimized InfluxDB and built resilient metric ingestion and observability tooling under heavy load. His background spans event-driven systems, big-data processing with Spark/Cassandra, and cloud-native infrastructure automation using Terraform and Kubernetes. At Qualtrics and now Palantir he’s focused on reliability, performance tuning, and maintainability across the full lifecycle from design to production. He also explores ML-driven application delivery with SageMaker and PyTorch, bringing practical GenAI experiments into operational workflows. Based in the DC-Baltimore area, he blends pragmatic engineering with deep operational instincts that surface non-obvious failure modes before they impact users.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at George Mason UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at SJB Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Github Skills (10)
custom-domain9
html6
data-mining6
elisp6
kubectl6
sql6
common-lisp6
couchbase6
body-parser6
dereference6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akashvbabu/Weather-apk
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
akashvbabu/SpringToy
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 4 days
spring-bootspring-restspringrestrest-api
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