Akanksha Mahajan

I am passionate about the intersection of open-source systems and large-scale infrastructure — building software used by developers and companies worldwide, and pushing the boundaries of what distributed storage can do in production. I am a Senior Software Engineer at Apple working on the Backup and Restore subsystem and RocksDB storage engine within FoundationDB, an open-source distributed transactional database powering iCloud for billions of users with petabytes of data, with an emphasis on scalability, high availability, efficiency, correctness, and high throughput. With over a decade of industry experience at companies including Meta, LinkedIn, and Apple, I bring deep systems expertise grounded in production-scale distributed infrastructure. Previously, I worked at Meta speciali...