Hi, I'm Akansha.
I make complex systems legible to the people who run them.
Software engineer moving from frontend toward backend and distributed systems. I added a distributed cache to Thanos, a CNCF project, in Go, and spent four years at Phaidra building tools over thousands of plant sensors and charts at a million points per series.
Before
Four years of frontend at Phaidra
First frontend hire at an NVIDIA-backed startup. I built the tools engineers used to map thousands of plant sensors and read charts at a million points per series.
NowUpdated Sep 2026
Going deeper on distributed systems
Reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications and working through Fly.io's Gossip Glomers challenges in Go.
akanshat/maelstrom-engineNext
A backend or distributed systems role
Remote or hybrid, from India. I'd bring four years of shipping product with a team, and a growing depth in Go.
01Selected work
Three problems, told as case studies
One open-source contribution in Go to a CNCF project, and two from my four years at Phaidra, written at the level I can share publicly.
01Thanos · CNCF · LFX Mentorship, open source
Groupcache for Thanos Store
A pull request to a CNCF project: an embedded, distributed cache that fetches each object from storage once, however many queries ask for it at the same time. It was merged after three maintainers reviewed it and shipped in Thanos v0.25.
GoDistributed systemsCachingOpen sourceRead the case study
#4818
merged into Thanos and released in v0.25
- Size
- 26 commits
- Language
- Go
02Phaidra · Software Engineer I
Mapping Plant Data at Scale
My first project at Phaidra: an internal tool engineers used to map a plant’s data. It came with no spec. I owned the product and UI side, and kept it fast as plants grew to thousands of components.
ReactTypeScriptVirtualizationProduct designRead the case study
1,000s
of components per plant, and it still had to feel fast
- My part
- Product & UI
- Stack
- React · TypeScript
03Phaidra · Software Engineer II
Charts at a Million Points
An AI feature that answered questions with charts, some holding six or more series of about a million points each. I chose the charting library and built the charts.
ReactTypeScriptAG ChartsPerformanceRead the case study
6 × 1M
six or more series per chart, around a million points in each
- My part
- Charts + library choice
- Stack
- React · AG Charts
02Experience
Where I've worked
Four years of frontend on a product team, and backend work in Go on a CNCF project.
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Phaidra
Remote
NVIDIA-backed startup building AI agents for data-center operations. I worked on the frontend.
Software Engineer IIpromoted
Jul 2023 – Jan 2026
- Chose AG Charts over Highcharts for an AI feature that answers questions with charts of six or more series at around a million points each, and built its charts.
- Built versioned editing for part of the product’s control side, so users could change, review and roll back their settings safely.
- Wrote PRDs, which were rare at Phaidra, and test plans for my features; reviewed backend API specs and worked with design on flows.
- Reviewed code, fixed broken pipelines and tests, took on-call shifts, and helped QA engineers get their Cypress tests running.
Software Engineer I
Dec 2021 – Jul 2023
- Joined as the first frontend hire. Reviewed and refactored contractor code, then rewrote the main chart in the customer portal.
- Owned an internal data-mapping tool for solution engineers, from an open brief to production, designed so people who don’t write code could use it.
- Kept it fast as plants grew to thousands of components: virtualized the heaviest views, paginated the tables, and moved a 10,000+ item picker onto a paginated search API, with pagination and filters kept in the URL.
Thanos (CNCF)
Remote · LFX Mentorship
Open-source, highly available Prometheus with long-term storage. A Cloud Native Computing Foundation project.
LFX Mentee, open-source mentorship
Sep 2021 – Nov 2021
- Added groupcache, later migrated to galaxycache, as an embedded distributed cache backend for Thanos Store's caching bucket in Go (PR #4818, 26 commits).
- Worked through review with three maintainers: moved to galaxycache, added Prometheus metrics and end-to-end tests. Merged January 2022 and released in Thanos v0.25.
Reliance Jio
Mumbai, India
India's largest telecom operator. I worked on JioMart's B2B partner platform.
Software Engineer
Jul 2021 – Nov 2021
- Led the migration of the JioMart B2B partner app from native Android to a responsive web app, keeping full functional parity across platforms.
- Shipped production features for a large-scale B2B partner onboarding platform, set up the product's design system, and wrote its tests.
Rakuten
Bangalore, India
Global e-commerce and internet services company.
Software Engineer Intern
Jan 2021 – Jun 2021
- Built an internal testing tool that let QA engineers define automated test plans and test steps.
- Took part in product requirement planning and design reviews alongside the full-time team.
03Toolbox
What I work with
Backend & data
- Node.js
- Go
- REST APIs
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Prometheus
Frontend
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- AG Charts
- Redux
- Tailwind CSS
- Material UI
- Sass
- Vite
- Webpack
Quality & delivery
- Playwright
- Unit testing
- CI/CD
- Docker
AI in the workflow
- Cursor
- Claude
- LangChain
- RAG
Education
B.Tech, Computer Science
IIIT Gwalior · 2017 – 2021 · CGPA 8.08 / 10
Data structures & algorithms · Operating systems · Computer networks · Systems programming