About

Aakash Abhishek Pradhan is a qualified technocrat and seasoned professional with over 10 years of IT experience. Currently, he is working as a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, where he has helped Ally.io's OKR product to scale better to support Microsoft's customers. He has also improved multiple APIs and DB queries to enhance the performance of the product. Aakash has delivered Database Sharding using Citus, which was a Global Availability requirement. He has modified and patched multiple third-party ruby gems (monkey patch) to accommodate various product requirements. Moreover, he has helped the On-Call team to react better with a set of documents to follow during DB Outage as part of Disaster recovery. Aakash has previously worked as a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, where he worked on the "Developer Help" segment for Bing.com. This involved showing various types of experiences on Bing.com for code-related queries. He was involved in multiple discussions with the UX team and platform team to come up with a standard handshake for Data Generation to Rendering in UI. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer II at Ally.io, where he worked on the implementation and data clean up according to GDPR. He delivered a time-sensitive feature of sharing multiple views for Gitlab, which eventually ended up on GitLab's public page as an embedded item, reflecting their every quarter's progress. Aakash has a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from B.J.B. Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar, Khurda. He has a relevant experience of 10.36 years and is proficient in Software Engineering and Ruby. Aakash is a dedicated professional with a passion for technology and a strong desire to deliver the best possible solutions to his clients.