Ankitha Pilli
Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkitha Pilli is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in cloud and compute platform engineering, currently building infrastructure at DigitalOcean after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft. At Microsoft she owned Azure Restore Point support for direct-attached disks and was a key contributor to Linux VM snapshot and application-consistent restore extensions, delivering end-to-end features that bridged low-level storage semantics and cloud service reliability. She brings deep practical experience in backup, snapshotting, and platform extensions across Windows and Linux, with a track record of shipping complex features and running bug-bashes to production. Based in Hyderabad, she combines strong engineering rigor from a Computer Science background with a collaborative mindset honed in large-scale cloud teams. Known among peers as a "happy developer," she pairs pragmatic problem-solving with steady operational ownership. Beyond core platform work, she has experience across data, analytics and business-platform teams, giving her a versatile perspective on cloud systems and developer tooling.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Maths Physics Chemistry, High School Maths Physics Chemistry at FIITJEE JUNIOR COLLEGEBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute Of Technology
Telugu, English, Hindi, Korean
Github Skills (5)
virtual-machine10
hyper-v10
linux9
azure9
vmware9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ankitha-p/azure-linux-extensions
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Linux Virtual Machine Extensions for Azure
Contributions:3 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
hyper-vlinuxvirtual-machineextensionsazure
ankitha-p/ankitha-p.github.io
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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