Akhil Gandu
Senior Software Engineer at Astera Labs
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkhil Gandu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Belmont, CA with 11 years of industry experience and a recent focus on backend systems and CI infrastructure. He has driven high-throughput build platforms and premerge systems at Pure Storage—helping support ~150k builds/day—while owning Kafka/RabbitMQ-based async pipelines, observability stacks, and fleet-wide optimizations that cut merge times and resource use. Comfortable across full-stack projects, he previously led prototype and production work on a geolocation-driven marketplace with MongoDB, Express, and GCP, and has repeatedly led small teams through migrations and service consolidations. Known for finding non-obvious bottlenecks in logging and signature matching, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership to simplify complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
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Github Skills (33)
asciidoc9
search-engine9
java9
slack9
chat9
elasticsearch8
collaboration8
python8
zulip8
restful8
apache8
websocket8
javascript8
nodejs8
socket-io8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Rockstar5645/web-server
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
web sserver written in java
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
javaserver
Rockstar5645/zulip
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
Zulip server - powerful open source team chat
Contributions:13 pushes in 15 days
team-chatchatzulip
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