# Aakanksha Aakanksha

> Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aakanksha

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Led the Launch of Airbnb’s Connected Smart Lock Platform

As a tech lead, drove the end-to-end rewrite and launch of Airbnb’s first hardware integration — a platform enabling secure, seamless check-ins through deep integrations with leading smart lock brands.

Designed the system to be fully asynchronous for resilience, scalability, and low operational overhead. This was a highly cross-functional effort, grounded in customer obsession — delivering a magically simple experience for guests and effortless automation for hosts.

### Senior Software Engineer, PowerPoint @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, CA
• Improved the performance and efficiency of PowerPoint by identifying and resolving service bottlenecks
• Enhanced reliability and created a smoother, more seamless experience for millions of users

### Software Engineer, PowerPoint @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
Prototyped, designed and implemented the first version of PowerPoint Designer. In addition worked on some upgrades for PowerPoint Desktop

### Software Engineer, Business Intelligence @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
SQL based project that tracked OEM Activations of Microsoft Windows around the world. Primarily focused on improving the performance via sql query optimization, Database indexing, etc. Designed a framework that provides for parallelism in execution, reducing the overall ETL time by 60%.

### Software Engineer, Modern Innovations Group @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Hyderabad
Worked in an applied research group to develop several prototypes for increasing employee productivity. The Modern Innovations Group was a CIO sponsored initiative, with a set of hand-picked individuals working on multiple digital prototypes. I worked on multiple applications such as a Whiteboard OCR App (in collaboration of Office and Bing Team) that did image adjustments, OCR, etc. and made it easy to share these images via OneDrive. This app was extremely well received by the Office Leadership, and was also showcased at MGX. This application was integrated with Campus Experience, a “Swiss-army knife” for employees across. The app has over 20000 downloads across Microsoft, and is widely used.

### Software Developer, Development Tools for Windows Phone and Windows CE, Visual Studio @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Designed and developed a low level production facing logging framework that works across platforms for Windows Phone SDK and Windows CE SDK for tracking bugs and their traces, as logged by end users. Also, I was responsible for improving the robustness and reliability of the Windows Phone SDK.

### Software Developer, Interactive Entertainment Business Division @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Hyderabad
Led the end to end development of a SharePoint and FAST based Knowledge Management Portal for the MSCIS org worldwide, which gave a single interface to search and filter results from different sources across the Org including VSTF, SCSM, Database, SP Sites, etc. Also, worked on a Silverlight based portal for the same.

### Software Development Engineer in Test, Microsoft Products and Services IT @ Microsoft
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
-> Performed Manual and Automated Testing
-> Automation of existing test suite to save developer and testing time
-> Developed a windows phone app to track project tasks (via Microsoft Project Server) on the go and update the same with ease

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Automated a bunch of test scenarios using PowerShell and other frameworks. Developed a Visual Studio (VSTF) Add-in to generate status reports for a team project based on the status of work items


## Education
### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering
NIT Kurukshetra


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aakankshamitra

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Last updated: 2026-04-12