Rakesh Iyer
Member Of Technical Staff at Anchorage Digital
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Iyer is a seasoned engineer with 15 years building high-performance distributed systems, databases, and infrastructure across companies from NVIDIA to AWS, Twitter, Google, and now Anchorage Digital. He specializes in low-latency server and storage systems, NoSQL and Dynamo-style databases, and trust-and-safety and threat-detection services that scale to global traffic. His track record spans kernel and systems research through production database services and machine-learning infrastructures, bringing a rare blend of deep systems engineering and product-focused delivery. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with hands-on experience in blockchain protocol work and GenAI infrastructure—often operating at the intersection of performance, reliability, and security. An engineer who moves comfortably between object-oriented and functional styles, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that endure at scale.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (21)
csharp9
cpp8
grpc8
python8
php8
ruby8
objective-c8
android7
optimization5
material-ui5
modular5
machine-learning4
material-design4
deep-learning3
material-components3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/blkcgroup
May 2011 - Jan 2012
Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/blkcgroup
Contributions:10 commits in 7 months
aosp-mirror/platform_frameworks_base
Dec 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:50 commits in 3 years 3 months
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