Nihla Akram
Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk
Singapore
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Top SchoolNihla Akram is a Principal Software Engineer based in Singapore with nine years of experience designing and shipping production software at Autodesk and earlier roles at WSO2 and Global Blue. She has progressed through hands-on engineering to technical leadership within Autodesk, demonstrating expertise across backend systems, analytics, and event-driven architectures. Early work on big-data energy optimization and DEBS anomaly detection led to publications, reflecting a practical research-to-production mindset. Nihla combines rigorous academic foundations—a First Class BEng in Software Engineering—with a proven track record of improving system performance and delivering measurable cost savings. Known simply on GitHub as "Human. Engineer.", she brings curious, pragmatic engineering and a history of turning experimental prototypes into impactful solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St. Paul's Girls' School, MilagiriyaHigh School, Mathematics, High School, Mathematics at St. Bridget's Convent, Colombo 07Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, First Class at University of Westminster
English, Sinhalese, Tamil
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Github Skills (69)
api-management10
microgateway10
messaging10
identity10
authentication10
microservices10
cloud-native10
middleware10
api10
rest10
gateway10
authorization10
access-management10
wso2-api-manager10
docker10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wso2-incubator/big-data-analytics-smartenergy
Sep 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 7 months
nihlaakram/adaptive-pipeline
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 73 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
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