Akshat Aranya
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAkshat Aranya is a Principal Engineer based in Portland with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing scalable distributed systems, storage and caching architectures, and cloud infrastructure at companies including AWS and NEC. He has deep expertise in big data and streaming platforms (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka), anycast networking and DDoS mitigation at internet scale, and low-level storage optimizations for SSDs and file systems. Proficient in Java, Scala, C++, and Python, he combines systems research roots with production engineering—transitioning prototypes into resilient, enterprise-grade services. At AWS he helped build Global Accelerator and CloudFront-level networking features that push packets and scale protections across the public internet. Former research roles at NEC and Stony Brook underpin his knack for solving hard performance and consistency problems while mentoring teams and contributing scheduler-level improvements to Spark. He brings a rare blend of academic rigor and operational experience driving both high-throughput streaming analytics and ultra-reliable global networking.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (68)
apache-spark10
python10
swagger10
hadoop10
terraform10
rest-api10
cpp10
terraform-module10
javascript10
r10
big-data10
dotnet10
scale10
swagger-ui10
sdk10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
coolfrood/spark
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 10 days
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
coolfrood/aws-cloudformation-resource-providers-globalaccelerator
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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