SDE2 @ Barclays · backend, distributed systems, AI agents, Inference
13 PRs merged upstream into vLLM, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, Kubernetes and VS Code
About me
class AkshatAnand:
name = "Akshat Anand"
title = "Software Development Engineer II (SDE2)"
company = "Barclays"
location = "India"
roles = [
"Backend Engineer",
"Distributed Systems Engineer",
"LLM Inference Engineer",
"AI Agents Engineer",
]
certifications = ["AWS Certified AI Practitioner"]
skills = {
"languages": ["Java", "Go", "Python", "TypeScript"],
"backend": [
"Spring Boot", "FastAPI", "REST APIs", "gRPC", "Microservices",
],
"data": ["Apache Kafka", "PostgreSQL", "Redis", "pgvector"],
"distributed_systems": [
"Event-driven architecture", "Transactional outbox",
"Idempotency", "Prometheus observability",
],
"llm_inference": [
"vLLM", "SGLang", "NVIDIA Dynamo", "KV cache", "Sampling kernels",
],
"ai_agents": [
"RAG", "LangGraph", "Tool calling", "Multi-agent systems",
],
"cloud_devops": [
"AWS", "Docker", "Kubernetes", "GitHub Actions", "Cloudflare Workers",
],
}
open_source = {
"merged_prs": 13,
"projects": [
"vLLM", "SGLang", "NVIDIA Dynamo", "Kubernetes",
"VS Code", "Playwright", "Appwrite", "Apple Pkl",
],
}Keywords: Backend Engineer · Software Engineer · Java · Spring Boot · Go · Python · Apache Kafka · PostgreSQL · Redis · Microservices · Distributed Systems · LLM Inference · vLLM · SGLang · NVIDIA Dynamo · RAG · AI Agents · LangGraph · AWS · Kubernetes · Docker
Now
- Building codereviewer_agent: multi-agent PR reviewer with unified RAG
- Building briefly: AI briefing agent on Cloudflare Workers AI
- Building antibody: turns every fix into a Semgrep rule enforced on coding-agent edits and in CI
Recent contributions · 2026
- ✅ SGLang: clamp glm4v request video budgets to the deployment limit (#43871)
- ✅ vLLM: carry the boundary tie count across blocks in the split top-p mask kernel (#62046)
- ✅ vLLM: reject mismatched float16/bfloat16 KV cache dtype (#60885)
- ✅ NVIDIA Dynamo: keep NIXL telemetry capture when export is disabled (#15570)
- ✅ SGLang: skip diffusion warmup preload when it would OOM (#40761)
- ✅ Kubernetes:
_totalsuffix for the endpoint slice controller metric (#140447) - ✅ VS Code: center Modern UI panel title tabs in the 32px header (#331612)
- ✅ VS Code: Modern UI tabs reserve the close-button column so it doesn't overlay the filename (#330754)
- ✅ Appwrite: return ISO8601 session expire from
updateSession(#12891) - ✅ Playwright: pass client name on token-bypass connect (#41845)
- ✅ VS Code: fix Modern UI editor tab decoration color on full label (#325291)
- ✅ Apple Pkl: fix super method call inside a
letexpression (#1383)
✅ merged upstream · newest first
2025
- ✅ DigitalOcean Gradient:
wait_until_ready()for agent deployments (#56)
Projects
- codereviewer_agent: LangGraph PR review pipeline with pgvector RAG
- antibody: every fix becomes a verified Semgrep rule, enforced on coding-agent edits and in CI
- a2a-incident-agents: diagnosis + remediation agents in Spring Boot
- usage-billing-pipeline: Go billing on Kafka, Redis, outbox, DLQ
- CopilotPulse: local-first Copilot Chat analytics for VS Code
Marathons · weight training · too many terminal tabs