# Ankita S.

> Senior Software Engineer @ Figma

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ankitas

I'm a software engineer with 6 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions across leading cloud platforms—AWS, Azure, and GCP. 
After finishing my MS in Computer Science focused on distributed systems, I currently work at Sigma Computing where I drive key product initiatives, including adding data ingestion and collaborative text editing features into the product.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
- Databases, Caching and Streaming Infra
- DevEx : AI native remote coding sandboxes

### Software Engineer @ Sigma
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer, Bing & AI Products @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Crawl the internet to help build Knowledge Graph that powers intelligence in Microsoft products such as Bing and Outlook

### Software Engineer, Marketing Automation @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India
Developed robust ETL pipelines to extract and process ad data from marketing campaigns at Microsoft, transforming insights into high-quality leads to drive sales team's success.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Wipro Limited
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India
Developed a real time platform to monitor the frequency of diseases’ occurrence in a region, maintain last one hour count of a medical code occurring in any particular city and notify the user if the count exceeds predefined threshold 
Data was obtained with Spring Boot REST server, used Apache Kafka as message broker, Apache Storm for realtime computation, ElasticSearch for storage, Kibana for analysis and visualisation


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science, Systems Engineering
Columbia University

### B. Tech in Electronics Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11