Akash Vasishta
Software Engineer at Workday
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash Vasishta is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building systems-level and distributed storage software, currently contributing to Workday after developing management and CSI storage services for Cisco HyperFlex. With a Master’s from the University of Florida and an electronics background, he bridges embedded and systems engineering—having built a fault-tolerant distributed Linux file system from scratch and explored functional distributed programming in Elixir. His research at UF involved preprocessing CERN physics data, training CNNs, and deploying models to FPGA, reflecting a rare blend of ML, heterogeneous computing, and systems work. Comfortable across full-stack, embedded, and cloud-native stacks, he’s a maker who moves projects from hardware hacks to production microservices and enjoys tackling problems late into the night.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at PES Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at University of Florida
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
scheduling9
mesos8
kubernetes-monitoring8
fpga-accelerator6
xilinx6
convolutional-neural-networks5
lru4
ttl4
opencl3
memcached3
fpga3
in-memory3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rvakash/Advanced-Systems-Programming
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
rvakash/Distributed-Operating-Systems
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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