# Akshaya Mahapatra

> Principal Software Engineer at Hammerspace

Location: Campbell, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshayamahapatra

Profile

- Computer Science Graduate with extensive experience in architecture, design and development of web based enterprise software using Java/J2EE, databases (SQL and NoSQL).
- Redesigned several products that fell short on scalability.
- Experience as Individual Contributor and Technical Lead.
- Exposure to machine learning
- 20+ patents
- Speaker at Silicon Valley Code Camp, various forums and Toastmasters

Technical Skills
Programming Languages: JAVA/J2EE, JSP, SQL, JavaScript, AJAX, XML, HTML, Python, C++
Frameworks/APIs: Spring, Hibernate, JDBC, JNDI, REST, JSON, JMS, SOAP, VMware vSphere APIs, JQuery, Protocol Buffer, Machine Learning(pandas, matplotlib, SciKit-Learn)
Products: Kafka, InfluxDB(time series), PostgreSQL, VMware vSphere, ORACLE, SQL Server, Active Directory, Apache, Tomcat, Cassandra, Elasticsearch

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Hammerspace
Jan 2023 – Present

### Principal Software Engineer @ Commvault
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ HyperGrid
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer @ Komprise
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ Primary Data Inc
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018
Data Management Engine (DME) is a Java services layer that is part of the control plane for DataSphere. 
Responsibilities
- Significantly improved performance of the product by eliminating bottlenecks (identified using YourKit profiler), better thread and memory management. Refactored the data access layer (using a intermediate cache and batching of updates) and used native SQL instead of Hibernate for better performance. Scaled the system to handle a billion objects (from around a million).
- Worked with the team to develop a module to copy files between a NFS data store and Amazon S3 (using Amazon S3 Java SDK and a Java NFS Client), all managed using rule based objectives.
- Optimized the file creation and deletion process using a feedback loop (scale up or down depending on past performance).
- Developed a module for volume latency prediction (using bandwidth and iops) using machine learning (pandas, matplotlib, SciKit-Learn, tensorflow)

Environment: Java, Spring, REST, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Kafka, InfluxDB, Sun RPC, Protocol Buffer, python, Flyway, NFS, YourKit Profiler, Machine Learning (matplotlib, pandas, SciKit-Learn), Amazon S3 SDK.

### Principal Software Engineer @ VCE
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015
Application Deployment Platform is a suite of products to enable customers rapidly deploy software (like VMware View, Web Applications etc.) in a multi-tenant environment on a Vblock. It also hides the complexity of configuring Network, Storage and Compute resources that is needed during a typical application deployment. The product handles physical as well as virtual provisioning of resources.
Responsibilities
Technical Lead/Individual Contributor
-Developed a suite of web applications, blueprints to help enable automated application deployment on a Vblock (converged infrastructure).
-Developed a script execution framework for optimizing script execution on large number of virtual machines.
-Extensively used VMware APIs, CISCO APIs and EMC’s storage APIs.
-Developed a proof-of-concept application to collect data on various infrastructure and search based on keywords (using elasticsearch).
-Filed 20+ patents. 
-Worked with customers as needed for troubleshooting and training.
Environment: Java, Spring, Jersey, REST, Hibernate, JSP, JQuery (Bootstrap), AngularJS, Tomcat, SQL, Active Directory, PostgreSQL, XML, XML Schema, JNDI, Puppet, VMware vCenter Orchestrator workflows, Python

### Senior Software Engineer @ WYSE Technology
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
WYSE Streaming Manager is a highly scalable web based device and configuration management product that also interfaces with two other products (developed in C and C++) for Operating System Streaming and Applications streaming.
Responsibilities:
- Re-designed to improve scalability so that the product can be deployed across thousands of sites and handle thousands of devices. Original product had a bottleneck at around 500 devices.
- Introduced a Site Template based architecture for easier management. It allowed a new site (WSM installation) to be up and running in the matter of minutes.
- Module to aggregate site data at the Headquarters
- Integrated WSM with VMWare Virtual Center so that customers can use virtual machines as thin clients.
- Worked with customers to help critical customer issues 
- Conducted trainings for customers as needed.

Environment: Java, Spring (MVC/AOP), Hibernate, Jetty, AJAX, Web Services, SQL, Active Directory, SQL Server, JSP, JDBC, XML, XML Schema, JNDI, C, C++


## Education
### BS Engineering in Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Rourkela

### MBA in Business Administration
Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshaya-mahapatra-51b0201

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Last updated: 2026-04-12