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Akshat Sharma
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Databases and Distributed systems | Movies and thriller fiction books.


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With my final semester coming up, its time to put up an open to work post and put my hat in the market.

Open to work in distributed systems/databases and backend positions. I have experience writing systems that implement different distributed consensus protocols.
Résume: resume.akshatsharma.xyz
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Inspired by database.news, I made a similar feed aggregation to try and pull together the scattered content that folk have written on deterministic simulation testing into one place. If you're aware of anything else to add, please let me know!

deterministic-simulation-testing.github.io/planet-dst/
April 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Hey👋, I’m Akshat, a CS grad specializing in distributed systems, databases, and low-level optimizations. Built sharded KV stores, fail-slow detectors, and more. Looking for full-time roles in distributed databases/storage. Let’s chat! 🚀
#DistributedSystems #Database #Hiring #CSjobs
March 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Happy π day everyone 🫶
March 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
new display picture in an effort to get more engagement in an effort to get a job(i'm getting desperate now)
March 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Still looking for opportunities, would appreciate RTs.
Resume: resume.akshatsharma.xyz
With my final semester coming up, its time to put up an open to work post and put my hat in the market.

Open to work in distributed systems/databases and backend positions. I have experience writing systems that implement different distributed consensus protocols.
Résume: resume.akshatsharma.xyz
resume.akshatsharma
March 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Wrote about how I am not writing enough to push myself to write more. Let's see if it helps.
I am not writing enough | Akshat SharmaXY Combinator
I have recently been seeing a lot of posts talking about how “You are not writing enough”. There’s book clubs reading “Writing for developers”, people tweeting everyday about how writing has changed t...
akshatsharma.xyz
February 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
With my final semester coming up, its time to put up an open to work post and put my hat in the market.

Open to work in distributed systems/databases and backend positions. I have experience writing systems that implement different distributed consensus protocols.
Résume: resume.akshatsharma.xyz
resume.akshatsharma
January 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Happy new year folks :) 🎊
January 1, 2025 at 6:20 AM
snowing in stony brook tonight, white sky goes hard at 2 am in the night
December 5, 2024 at 7:43 AM
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
December 1, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Who is doing advent of code this year? this is my first time doing advent of code, would love to connect with people attempting it in rust.

#AdventOfCode
December 1, 2024 at 11:50 PM
@yagil.bsky.social when can we expect MCP in LM Studio?👀👀
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM
living the ricing dream, only step left is to move to arch now
November 27, 2024 at 12:23 AM
spam over folks, thanks for enduring
November 26, 2024 at 8:56 PM
my notes on the Cockroach DB paper presented in SIGMOD 2020:
akshatsharma.xyz/posts/notes/...
CockroachDB, The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database | Akshat SharmaXY Combinator
Personal notes on the CockroachDB paper that was presented in SIGMOD 2020.
akshatsharma.xyz
November 26, 2024 at 8:55 PM
My notes and overview of isolation levels and how one can try and understand them:
akshatsharma.xyz/posts/notes/...
Generalized Isolation Level Definitions | Akshat SharmaXY Combinator
Personal notes on the Generalized Isolation Level Definitions paper that was published in 2000.
akshatsharma.xyz
November 26, 2024 at 8:55 PM
now that I've added bsky based comments on my blog, might as well share some posts so that I can have the comments rendered, heheh.
sorry for the spam folks
November 26, 2024 at 8:55 PM
does bluesky allow editing posts??🤔
November 25, 2024 at 10:50 AM
hello world!
September 1, 2024 at 8:56 AM