Uttom Akash

Uttom Akash

Backend & Distributed Systems EngineerResearcher6 Years

Backend & distributed systems engineer with 6 years of production experience in Go, Rust, C++, and C#.

  • ProductionDistributed transactions (2PC + Saga) on Azure · 1000-table monolith partitioning · C++/WebAssembly document systems
  • Side projectsRaft-replicated vector DB · LSM-tree storage engine · distributed consensus filesystem · learned LSM index (collab w/ Dr. Song Jiang)
  • CredentialsIJGUC 2023 publication · IUPC problem-author · Google Foobar Level 5
  • Under NDAProduction RAG / vector search (Qdrant, LangGraph) · Embedded Linux (Raspberry Pi)
  • Open to relocateGermany · UK · Netherlands · Ireland
Storage & DatabasesDistributed SystemsConsensus & ReplicationDocument Systems / PDFCloud & MicroservicesGenerative AI & RAGEmbedded Linux

Publications

An event-driven and lightweight proactive autoscaling architecture for cloud applications

Uttom Akash, P. Paul, A. Habib

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2023Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 539-551

We design a lightweight auto-scaling architecture for cloud applications that scale resources proactively based on real-time demand patterns and SLA, achieving cost efficiency and a seamless user experience using MAPE loop and exponential smoothing algorithms.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2023.133450

Experience

Software Engineer

Iron Software Thailand

GolangRustC++WebAssemblyHarfBuzzAWSAzureDockerPdfiumQPdf

Software Engineer

AnyDesk Software Stuttgart, Germany

RustPresence ServerKV StorageProcedural MacrosRhaiDatabase Internals1Password Connect

Senior Software Engineer

Cefalo Bangladesh Ltd (Powersim Software AS) Dhaka, Bangladesh

C++C#PostgreSQLAWSDockerDDDGraph AlgorithmsStored ProceduresServer-Sent Events

Software Engineer

Cefalo Bangladesh Ltd (SPENN Technology) Dhaka, Bangladesh

C#AzureMSSQLRedisDockerMassTransitDistributed TransactionsMicroservicesEvent-Driven Architecture

Associate Software Engineer

Cefalo Bangladesh Ltd (SPENN Technology) Dhaka, Bangladesh

C#Azure FunctionsAzureRedisDistributed LocksServerlessMSSQLEvent-Driven Architecture

Trainee Software Engineer

Cefalo Bangladesh Ltd Dhaka, Bangladesh

GolangC#ASP.NET CorePythonLinuxSQLBash Scripting

Education

Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering

Shahjalal University Of Science and Technology (SUST)

Sylhet, BangladeshFeb 2017 — Feb 2021
CGPA: 3.72/4.004th in the Department

Honors & Awards

  • Google Foobar Challenge2022
  • Cefalo CodeSmash 2022 — 1st Place2022
  • Research Grant — $3,0002022
  • Judge & Problem-Author, SUST IUPC 20232023

Skills

IUPC problem-author · Google Foobar Level 5 · Cefalo CodeSmash 1st

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