# Saakshi Malhotra > Senior II Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies Location: Malden, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/saakshimalhotra Saakshi is a driven Software Developer currently pursuing a Masters degree in Computer Science at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. She is due to graduate in December 2015 and is actively seeking full-time opportunities as a Software Developer. She is currently part of the vCloud Air team at VmWare, Cambridge, MA working as an intern involved in the design and implementation of a Telemetry Application capable of capturing static metric information and dynamic performance data from vCloud Director, making it available for further analysis in a format thats comparable, assisting in the communication of low level product details, bug tracking and designing strategies for further improvement of the product by significant reduction in analysis time. Her past experience includes working as a Software Development Co-op at Wayfair LLC., Boston where she is actively involved in the design and development of an interactive CIA Tool which assists Wayfair employees in detecting criminal activity and protect Wayfair's online retail website against any security breach. Saakshi is actively seeking Full-time opportunities that help nurture and expand her designing and development skills, thereby driving her to a position of responsibility that helps add value to the Company. ## Work Experience ### Senior II Software Engineer @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2022 – Present | Greater Boston Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer @ Akamai Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States ### Member of Technical Staff Intern @ VMware Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA Project: Telemetry Application for vCloud Director using Java Instrumentation Java instrumentation and Byte code Manipulation to collect targeted performance data which can be used for monitoring, bug tracking and event tracing for product quality improvement. - Implemented user-defined logic to capture targeted performance data such as performance metrics, execution time and number of invocations for a particular operation, amount of memory used and method arguments for a series of vCD REST API calls - Integrated an open-source Interactive Java Profiler within the application to perform instrumentation by augmenting Java byte code dynamically using ASM Byte Code Manipulation and Analysis Framework - Persisting captured data to be further processed and refined into a Performance Profile – to be measured against other Performance Profiles to determine if the vCloud Director installation is performing at, above or below expected values ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Served as a Teaching Assistant to Prof. Thomas Wahl for the undergraduate course Logic and Computation Introduce fundamental, foundational methods for modeling, design and reasoning about computation Providing assistance to students learning ACL2s, a simple LISP-based language with contracts Show how to use logic to formalize the syntax and semantics of the core ACL2s language Holding ACL2s Practical Lab Sessions ### Software Development Co-op @ Wayfair Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Boston, MA Clickstream Investigation and Analysis (CIA) Tool: Designed a CIA Tool capable of optimally analyzing terabytes of customer specific data to detect criminal activity on the website further reducing the analysis time by 20%. Working with : PHP, Hive, HADOOP, Shell Scripting, MySQL, Jenkins CI, MVC architecture, RESTful Web Services, Git, OOP ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science Northeastern University ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering St. Francis Institute Of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/saakshimalhotra --- Source: https://flows.cv/saakshimalhotra JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/saakshimalhotra/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31