Akash Singhal
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Singhal is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building high-throughput distributed systems, currently focused on content distribution at Microsoft Azure in Redmond. His trajectory from internships to senior roles at Microsoft, plus early-stage founding and founding-engineer experience in the Bay Area, shows a blend of product-minded engineering and scalable systems design. He brings hands-on expertise in shipping reliable services at cloud scale and mentoring through complex codebases, informed by a CS degree from UC Berkeley. Notably, his background spans both enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and scrappy startup execution, giving him a pragmatic edge when turning research-grade ideas into production systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleySaint Francis High School
Github Skills (105)
controller10
cosign10
security10
gatekeeper10
attestation10
opa10
validation10
containerd10
sdk10
conftest10
aggregates10
azure-container-registry10
kubernetes10
artifact10
vex10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
akashsinghal/accelerated-container-image
Nov 2021 - Oct 2022
accelerated-container-image
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 28 pushes in 10 months
containersdocker-imageaccelerateddockercontainer
ratify-project/ratify-containerd
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
ratify containerd PoC
Contributions:10 reviews, 33 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 8 months
containerdkubernetessecure-supply-chain
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