Anish Adhikari is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead based in Austin with 10 years of experience building resilient, large-scale infrastructure and cloud services. He currently leads engineering efforts in Google Enterprise Networking after contributing to Google Cloud Services, bringing production experience from Uber where he worked on the Cadence orchestration engine. His contributions to Cadence include core workflow enhancements, consistency configuration work for Cassandra, and new APIs for deployment and tasklist visibility—demonstrating deep expertise in distributed systems and orchestration. Known for tackling durability and availability challenges, he combines hands-on backend development with technical leadership across enterprise and cloud environments. Anish’s trajectory from internships at Tableau and Bank of America to senior roles at Google reflects a steady focus on infrastructure reliability and operational scalability. He often blends pragmatic engineering with open-source collaboration to improve observability and fault-tolerance in complex systems.
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:40 reviews, 81 commits, 98 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Anish primarily contributed to the core functionality and internal structure of the Cadence workflow engine. Their work included implementing features like enabling auto-forwarding for global domains and modifying configurations related to Cassandra consistency. They also made changes to record binary checksums within the decision task failed event, impacting workflow event attributes. Furthermore, the user added APIs for accessing Cadence deployment information and tasklist partition details.
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Contributions:249 pushes, 52 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
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