# Akshay Aurora

> Software Engineer at LangChain

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

Databases and distributed systems

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ LangChain
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Databases + Rust

### Member of Technical Staff @ Contextual AI
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Databases + LLMs

### Software Engineer @ Databricks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California
Founding engineer on DBSQL and caching infrastructure at Databricks.

### Programmer @ Recurse Center
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Worked on building a relational DBMS (storage layer) in Rust.

### Research Assistant @ The Research Foundation for SUNY
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stony Brook, New York
Working at Design and Analysis Research (DAR) Lab.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stony Brook, New York
CSE 535 - Distributed Systems (Spring '19 and Fall '19)
CSE 305 - Principles of Database Systems (Spring '19)

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru, India
Worked on main-memory, lock-free and highly available database framework powering Azure Data Lake – hyper-scale distributed filesystem managing exabytes of data.

### Research Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bengaluru, India
Built a reinforcement learning agent to automate tasks on Android using the Accessibility Service as part of Project Insider at Mobility, Networks and Systems Group.

### Project Reviewer @ Udacity
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Reviewed over 100 student projects for Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – involving Numpy, Pandas, Jupyter and Tensorflow.

### Googler Summer of Code Intern @ The Honeynet Project
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Started open-source project YAPDNS – Yet Another Passive DNS, developing a web application to display correlate and analyze DNS records and a connector to upload DNS data from various log sources.

### Backend Development Intern @ Foundation for Learning Equality
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Developed Github CI service benchmarking performance of ka-lite using Python/Django

### Summer Entrepreneur Intern @ InnovAccer
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Noida Area, India
Developed API backend for Appy - social app discovery platform with personalized app and collection recommendations. Technologies used Python/Flask, Celery, MYSQL and Elasticsearch.

### Google Summer of Code Intern @ Mozilla
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
• Collaborated with the MDN Team working on kuma – Django codebase for MDN under the mentorship of David Walsh.
• Worked on UI/UX improvements and features directly contributing to MDN reaching 700 active editors/translators in July.

### Google Summer of Code Intern @ Inclusive Design Institute
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
• Developed a WebRTC Component for the Fluid Infusion framework to allow accessible video conferencing.
• Created an Accessible WebRTC Collaboration Application using Fluid Infusion framework using Express and Node.js for backend

### Designer & Developer @ Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New Delhi Area, India
Collaborated in a team to develop a responsive website using Drupal as Content Management System and an animation video for the IRCS Blood Bank.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

### MSc (Hons.) Mathematics and B.E (Hons) Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshayaurora
- Portfolio: http://iakshay.net

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Last updated: 2026-04-11