Akshay Aurora
Software Engineer at LangChain
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Aurora is a software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in databases, distributed systems, and the intersection of LLMs with storage infrastructure. He’s been a founding engineer on Databricks’ DBSQL and caching layers and recently worked on databases + LLMs before joining LangChain in San Francisco. His background spans production-grade, lock-free in-memory databases at Microsoft to building a relational storage layer in Rust, showing both systems-level rigor and pragmatic product delivery. An active open-source contributor, he improved MDN’s Kuma UI/UX—adding mobile navigation fixes and analytics—demonstrating attention to developer-facing experiences as well as backend scale. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook and a strong math and CS foundation from BITS Pilani, which underpins his ability to bridge research ideas and production systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stony Brook University
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
html10
mdc9
mdns9
mdt9
ui-design8
react7
swift6
api6
android6
bash6
chromium6
github6
cocoa6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/kuma
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
The project that powers MDN.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience within the MDN project. Their commits addressed various bugs related to mobile navigation, and translation page improvements. They also implemented a YouTube video tracking system, and added sticky page buttons for an improved user experience, demonstrating strong skills in front-end development and UI enhancements.
reactpythonsasscssjavascript
iakshay/ProxyMan
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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