Akshob Gopalakrishna
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkshob Gopalakrishna is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable cloud and client applications from Microsoft to telecom systems. He has delivered high-impact infrastructure and product features—designing a cloud build service that halved team effort and cut hardware costs by 40%, building a 3PB ETL pipeline on Azure Data Explorer, and improving Outlook across macOS and Android with performance and experimentation frameworks. Comfortable across backend, CI/CD, and client platforms, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering practices learned from work on quantum Q# libraries and large-scale production services. Based in Mountain View, he pairs a strong academic foundation (USC MS, top-tier undergraduate GPA) with active open-source contributions and a curious drive to understand how machines learn.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.78, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 3.78 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.00, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.00 at B. M. S. Institute of Technology
Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu
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Github Skills (18)
quantum-computing10
intellij-idea9
java9
eclipse9
internet-explorer6
firefox6
google-chrome6
android6
netbeans6
gradle6
ide6
css6
easymock6
android-gradle-plugin6
data-structures5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/QuantumLibraries
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Q# libraries for the Quantum Development Kit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Akshob focused on enhancing the quantum computing library's functionality, specifically in the area of array manipulation. They added example usages to the `Any` function and refactored the code to align with the Q# styling guide by removing underscores. Further revisions involved removing references and converting operations to functions. These contributions refined the library's usability and code style.
development-kitqdkquantum-computingqsharpquantum-development-kit
akshob/homebrew-tools
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 4 months
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