Akshat Sinha

• Serving as Incident Commander for 2+ years — leading cross-functional response for critical production incidents, coordinating engineering, comms, and executive stakeholders.
• Spearheaded Observability as Code (Terraform) migration for 50+ teams, leading 3 SREs over 4 quarters with reusable alert templates.
• Capacity-planned the company-wide Jenkins cluster, cutting build queue delays by 30% and reducing pod scheduling failures.
• Led design and rollout of a StackStorm-based auto-remediation framework, reducing MTTR via least-privilege automation.
• Built an LLM-powered Slack summarizer with role-specific contexts (manager vs. on-call) and a GenAI documentation translator.

• Automated new node deployment pipeline using GitOps and Python, reducing end-to-end deployment from 3–4 hours to minutes.

• Built a distributed transaction settlement service (Python, MySQL, RPC) to aggregate fintech provider logs, deployed on Meta's container orchestration system.

• Built and deployed a vulnerability detection system (Wazuh + ElasticSearch), fixing 1000+ system-level issues across the fleet.
• Migrated 10+ legacy applications to Kubernetes/Nomad, cutting infrastructure costs by 50%.
• Enhanced monitoring stack with Prometheus and Grafana to support mission-critical SLAs.

Research Projects

New Strongly Consistent Protocol on Kafka

Implemented a strongly consistent protocol for publishing messages to a Kafka cluster. Achieves performance comparable to weaker consistency models while guaranteeing linearizability. Ongoing research project.