Akash Jain
Staff Engineer at Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkash Jain is a Staff Engineer based in Bengaluru with seven years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and service mesh features for large-scale platforms. He has driven Istio/Envoy enhancements at Intuit—implementing advanced rate limiting, multicluster control-plane simplifications, and metrics/tracing integrations—and continued similar resiliency and gateway work at VMware before joining Cisco. Akash combines deep systems and backend engineering skills (Golang, proxies, metrics pipelines) with practical SaaS experience from his early work on Dgraph Cloud and platform tooling at Tally. He has a consistent track record of turning distributed-systems research into production-ready microservices and controller frameworks that improve observability and autoscaling. Colleagues value his ability to bridge control-plane and data-plane concerns while keeping developer ergonomics in mind. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he has repeatedly contributed both protocol-level proxy features and higher-level event/aggregation frameworks, giving him rare end-to-end visibility across service-mesh stacks.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE - Bachelor of Engineering Computer and Information Sciences General, BE - Bachelor of Engineering Computer and Information Sciences General at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (106)
api-management10
programming-language10
web-application10
python10
proxy10
accelerator10
interpreter10
graph-database10
security10
design-patterns10
throughput10
system10
scheduling10
consul10
istio10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
intuit/naavik
Mar 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 8 months
akashjain971/Design-Patterns
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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