Akshay Mata
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Mata is a Software Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of professional experience building full-stack solutions at companies ranging from robotics startups to Microsoft. At Microsoft he contributed to Azure Data Studio—notably enhancing the SQL Migration extension with UI improvements, accessibility updates, a new login-migration wizard, and telemetry to track progress and errors. His background blends systems and software foundations from a dual-degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems/Computer Science from RPI (3.87 GPA) with hands-on product work at Kodiak Robotics and early internships at Cisco and AQR. He focuses on shipping user-facing features that are robust and observable, and has a knack for refactoring domain logic into maintainable models. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and tooling, he brings an engineer’s rigor to developer experience and data tooling problems. Outside day-to-day work he has a track record of improving accessibility and telemetry—details that often make production migrations safer and more transparent.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Palo Alto High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, 3.87, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, 3.87 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
azure-data-studio10
sql-server10
typescript10
typescripts10
sql10
typescript-types10
microsoft-azure9
electron9
azure9
database-administration8
databases8
database8
back-end-development8
admin8
front-end-development8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azuredatastudio
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Azure Data Studio is a data management and development tool with connectivity to popular cloud and on-premises databases. Azure Data Studio supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, with immediate capability to connect to Azure SQL and SQL Server. Browse the extension library for more database support options including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 7 commits, 55 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Akshay primarily contributed to the Azure Data Studio SQL Migration extension, implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added and updated UI elements, including aria labels for accessibility. Their work included creating a new wizard for login migrations and enhancing the login migration process for SQL VMs. The user also refactored code to encapsulate login migration functionality into a dedicated model and improved telemetry to track migration progress and errors.
azure-data-studioazure-sqldatabasedatabaseslinux
AkshayMata/azuredatastudio
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Azure Data Studio is a data management tool that enables working with SQL Server, Azure SQL DB and SQL DW from Windows, macOS and Linux.
Contributions:47 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
sqlserverazure-sql-databasemanagement-tooldata-managementsql-server
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