Akshat Mahajan
Software Engineer - Privacy Edge at Cloudflare
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAkshat Mahajan is a distributed systems engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput infrastructure and SRE tooling, currently working on privacy-focused data plane projects at Cloudflare. He has shipped traffic-facing proxies in Rust and control-plane services in Go, operated global Kubernetes fleets, and helped route Internet-scale traffic reliably—from experimental routing algorithms to running iCloud Private Relay and other privacy partnerships. Past roles include scaling HDFS/HBase ingestion pipelines, improving monitoring latency by 96%, and architecting cross-region VPC and Postgres reliability, reflecting a strong blend of systems programming and operational rigor. With a Master’s in Computer Science from Brown and a physics background from UCLA, he brings both analytical depth and practical automation skills (Python, Terraform, Salt) to privacy-preserving analytics and real-time routing challenges. An understated strength is his habit of building canary and comparison frameworks that make risky global changes measurable and safe.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Brown UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (148)
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/web-bot-auth
May 2025 - Apr 2026
Sign and verify orchestrated HTTP requests
Contributions:20 reviews, 21 PRs, 37 pushes in 10 months
agentscryptography
AkshatM/ConsistentHashRing
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
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