Palwisha Akhtar
Principal Software Engineer at Arbisoft
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPalwisha Akhtar is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable Python-based web applications and services. She has progressed through technical roles at Arbisoft, where she now drives architecture and delivery using Django, FastAPI, Celery, Docker, and PostgreSQL. Holding an MS in Computer Science from Koç University, she blends academic rigor with practical engineering—having also taught and researched during her graduate studies. Known for solving complex backend challenges, she focuses on performance and maintainability while enabling reliable async processing and containerized deployments. Palwisha thrives in cross-functional, Agile teams and continuously adopts new tools and patterns to keep systems production-ready. Beyond coding, her background in teaching and early research on SDN QoS gives her an unusual mix of pedagogy and networking insight that informs her systems thinking.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesAlevels, Alevels at Lahore Grammar SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Koç UniversityOlevels, Olevels at Beaconhouse
English, Urdu, Punjabi, French
Github Skills (41)
javascript10
open-source10
docker-desktop7
multi-gpu6
cpu6
django6
cuda5
gpu5
nvlink5
python5
infiniband5
numa4
docker3
js3
desktop3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ParCoreLab/ComScribe
Aug 2020 - Aug 2021
ComScribe is a tool to identify communication among all GPU-GPU and CPU-GPU pairs in a single-node multi-GPU system.
Contributions:3 reviews, 22 commits, 3 PRs in 11 months
cudacpusingle-nodeinfinibandmulti-node
arbisoft/session-portal-backend
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:24 reviews, 32 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 months
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