Akshat Bordia
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshat Bordia is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond with eight years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed analytics platforms at Microsoft. He has driven critical features for first-party Spark on YARN and Azure Synapse integrations, improving performance, security, and tenant onboarding for enterprise-scale workloads. His work spans hands-on platform engineering, from low-privilege container security and Parquet write optimizations to building aggregation capabilities in Apache Hadoop’s Router and YARN federation code. Akshat combines individual contributor depth with leadership experience across senior engineering and manager roles, helping teams deliver reliable, production-grade data platforms. He is an active open-source contributor to foundational big-data projects like Hadoop and Spark, bringing real-world cluster-scale insights back into upstream projects. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems architect who surfaces subtle operational issues (e.g., classloader and null-pointer edge cases) before they impact customers.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
yarn-berry10
javas10
yarn210
api10
apidoc10
java10
yarn310
yarnpkg10
apache-hadoop10
metric9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/hadoop
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Apache Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the Apache Hadoop project, specifically focusing on the Router component and its interactions with the YARN framework. Their work included implementing and enhancing the `getApplications` API within the FederationClientInterceptor, adding metrics for monitoring, and addressing potential null pointer exceptions in critical code paths. These contributions involved modifying code related to merging application reports, which is crucial for the proper functioning of the router's aggregation capabilities. Additionally, the user fixed an issue related to the application classloader when expanding the glob for Windows paths.
apachebig-datasparkhadoopjava
akshatb1/MachineLearning
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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