Summary
Akram Ansari is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, currently working on Kafka storage at Confluent. He combines industry-grade production experience—from GaussDB and cloud-native microservices at Schlumberger to immersive media and WebRTC work at InterDigital—with academic research on low-latency adaptive video streaming and HTTP/3 innovations at the University of Calgary. Comfortable across C++, Rust, Python and Java, he has shipped codecs and packagers for XR media, implemented VLC core modules in Rust, and designed streaming players and frameworks that handle DASH/HLS/QUIC. Akram blends research rigor (three peer-reviewed streaming papers and collaboration with AT&T Labs) with hands-on engineering, often translating protocol-level insights into production features. Based in Bengaluru and known for “dreaming in code,” he brings a practical, systems-oriented mindset to challenging storage and streaming problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Calgary
French, Hindi, English