Summary
Shegufta Ahsan is a Senior Software Engineer with a PhD in Distributed Systems from UIUC and over a decade of experience building large-scale, low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed systems across Microsoft and Amazon. Her work spans cloud computing, ML infrastructure, IoT and smart-home safety, combining academic rigor—she co-authored the first paper on Microsoft Service Fabric—with hands-on production engineering. At Microsoft she continues to shape resilient microservice platforms, and at Amazon she delivered critical SDE-II level systems engineering. Her research produced a novel impossibility theorem (CAT) for transactional NewSQL systems and practical tools like a linearizability checker and benchmarking suite for Reliable Collections. Based in Renton, WA, she brings a rare blend of theoretical insight and pragmatic optimization for constrained devices and cloud-scale services.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering, B.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
English, Bengali