Akash Sharma
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable distributed data processing systems and end-to-end data pipelines, currently at Microsoft after roles at Meta and Google. He has a strong foundation in algorithms and data structures, cultivated through competitive programming and years curating problems at HackerEarth, which informs his pragmatic, performance-focused approach to system design. Akash thrives on mathematically complex challenges and enjoys turning intricate requirements into reliable, well-documented production code. His background spans rapid product environments at Flipkart to large-scale infrastructure at top-tier tech firms, giving him both startup agility and enterprise-grade engineering rigor. Based in Bengaluru, he combines hands-on coding with architectural thinking and a knack for making elegant solutions out of messy legacy code. Off the clock he still competes—mostly with his past self—keeping his algorithmic skills sharp.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Programming, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Programming at DIT University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (4)
react5
javascript4
powershell1
sharpsvn1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
r3gz3n/ContestHelper
Nov 2019 - May 2021
A VS Code extension to help you download and run test cases in a contest
Contributions:7 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
casesvs-code-extensionvscodevscode-extensionvs-code
r3gz3n/kaggle
Apr 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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