Akshat Sikarwar
Sr. Software Engineer at Bloomberg
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshat Sikarwar is a senior software engineer with nine years of professional experience building robust back-end systems and databases, currently contributing at Bloomberg in New York. He specializes in distributed RDBMS internals and database engineering, with notable contributions to Bloomberg’s open-source comdb2 project—implementing SQLite query planner fixes, transactional DDL support, and advanced compression features. His work blends low-level performance tuning with practical feature design, enabling scalable, production-grade storage and query behavior. Akshat holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Columbia and a BE from Savitribai Phule Pune University, bringing both rigorous academic grounding and real-world systems experience. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers improving foundational infrastructure that benefits many downstream services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Engineering, BE, Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (25)
databases10
query-optimization10
c1110
data-structure10
c1710
sql10
data-structures10
database10
index-management9
compression8
operating-system8
concurrency8
compress8
software-design8
debugging7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bloomberg/comdb2
Apr 2017 - Jan 2023
Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:286 reviews, 631 commits, 1014 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Akshat primarily contributed to the development of the Bloomberg's distributed RDBMS. Their work focused on integrating recent SQLite query planner fixes, including enhancements to multi-column index equality estimation and loop plan selection. They also made changes related to the Comdb2RLE compression algorithm, implementing features like hint-based compression and supporting compression algorithm specification during table creation. Additionally, the user made changes to facilitate DDL operations and implemented a basic transactional DDL functionality.
bloombergdatabaserdbmsdistributed
akshatsikarwar/dotfiles
May 2017 - Apr 2025
Contributions:205 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 11 months
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