Aakanksha Mitra
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Airbnb
https://www.linkedin.com/company/airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Staff Software Engineer
Microsoft
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Currently working on improving the efficiency of PowerPoint Online services including uncovering hot spots and fixing them while making sure we fit into the planned budget cuts.
Mountain View, CA
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Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
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Worked on design, prototype and implementation of Designer for PowerPoint. The Designer provides contextually relevant templates for existing slides in terms of layout, look and feel. I also created a script based automation framework to improve the PowerPoint product quality.

Currently working on a set of high impact and high risk features for PowerPoint desktop
San Francisco Bay Area
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Software Engineer, PowerPoint Team
Microsoft
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This SQL based project tracks data of OEM Activations of Microsoft Windows around the world. I primarily focused on improving the performance via query optimization, Database indexing, etc. Designed a framework that provides for parallelism in execution, reducing the overall ETL time from 7 days to 3 days. Also, I developed a feature rich and scalable Unit Test Automation framework for SQL and Informatica based systems.
Hyderabad Area, India
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Software Developer, BI Projects
Microsoft
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Worked in an applied research group to develop several prototypes for increasing employee productivity. The Modern Innovations Group was a CIO sponsored initiative, with a set of hand-picked individuals working on multiple digital prototypes. I worked on multiple applications such as a Whiteboard OCR App (in collaboration of Office and Bing Team) that did image adjustments, OCR, etc. and made it easy to share these images via OneDrive. This app was extremely well received by the Office Leadership, and was also showcased at MGX. This application was integrated with Campus Experience, a “Swiss-army knife” for employees across. The app has over 20000 downloads across Microsoft, and is widely used.
Hyderabad
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Software Developer, Modern Innovations Group
Microsoft
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Designed and developed a low level production facing logging framework that works across platforms for Windows Phone SDK and Windows CE SDK for tracking bugs and their traces, as logged by end users. Also, I was responsible for improving the robustness and reliability of the Windows Phone SDK.
Hyderabad Area, India
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Software Developer, Development Tools for Windows Phone and Windows CE, Visual Studio
Microsoft
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Led the end to end development of a SharePoint and FAST based Knowledge Management Portal for the MSCIS org worldwide, which gave a single interface to search and filter results from different sources across the Org including VSTF, SCSM, Database, SP Sites, etc. Also, worked on a Silverlight based portal for the same.
Hyderabad
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Software Developer, Interactive Entertainment Business Division
Microsoft
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-> Performed Manual and Automated Testing
-> Automation of existing test suite to save developer and testing time
-> Developed a windows phone app to track project tasks (via Microsoft Project Server) on the go and update the same with ease
Hyderabad Area, India
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Software Development Engineer in Test, Microsoft Products and Services IT
Microsoft
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Automated a bunch of test scenarios using PowerShell and other frameworks. Developed a Visual Studio (VSTF) Add-in to generate status reports for a team project based on the status of work items
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Software Engineer Intern
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Completed my Bachelors in Computer Science
Computer Engineering
NIT Kurukshetra
http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/23/developers-look-to-create-transparency-with-microsoft-kinect-v2/
Microsoft Kinect
Collaborated with Microsoft Kinect Team to organize hackathon in New York
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Augmented World Expo- California
Presented our self-incubated project Kinect Ripple at Augmented World Expo
Microsoft
IT Excellence Award
Self Ideated project, worked in a startup mode within Microsoft.

Ripple is an NUI based information dissemination platform which opens a plethora of business and entertainment opportunities. The system is fully customizable with SDK, content editor and calibration tool. It provides a unique interaction for people to control a front screen with interactive floor as the input. It is deployed at Microsoft Visitor Centers across Hyderabad and Seattle. It has been used by several teams during Hackathons, and the SDK has been also used by multiple external customers for gaming, galleries, interactive booths, education, and marketing scenarios. The platform was launched publicly by the Kinect Team and Microsoft Garage team, and showcased to multiple executives across Microsoft.
Ripple
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-in/kinect-ripple.aspx
Aether is a Windows phone app that lets an individual access and update their assigned project tasks while on the go. The app was extremely well received by the Microsoft Project Team, and added to the product roadmap for a future release
Aether: Project Tasks on the go
Developed existing and custom Trojans affecting registry, key logger, folder Trojans, FAT Virus, Companion Virus, MACRO Virus. The primary purpose was to get insights into the operation of malware and viruses.
Trojans and Viruses
Explored the FAT 32 file system details and developed an API using low level programming and basic WIN32 API for listing out the structure of contents, advanced searching and deleting files in a FAT 32 USB drive
API for FAT32 USB drives
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Bangalore Urban
Santosh P
Building Engineering Talent @ Airbnb
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India
Yash Gulani
Airbnb | Ex - Flipkart
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London
Renu Rozera
Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP
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Hyderabad
charan Batchu
Software Engineer at Airbnb
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Hyderabad
Gaurav Khurana
Test Consultant at Microsoft | udzial.com | Blogger | Youtuber| linktr.ee/gauravkhurana
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Bengaluru
Daipayan Mukherjee
Software Engineer at Airbnb | ex- Amazon, Enterpret
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San Francisco Bay Area
David Offor
Full-stack & iOS Engineer at Airbnb
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San Francisco Bay Area
Ankit Vij
Search @ Databricks
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Mountain View, CA
Smarth Behl
Software Engineer at Facebook
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Greater Seattle Area
Rahul Ranjan Sinha
Software Development Engineer || at Amazon
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Noida
Harshit Gupta
Software Engineer at Microsoft | IIT Kanpur
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Hyderabad
Vaibhavi Mishra
Software Engineer at Microsoft | IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
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Seattle, WA
Lassana Toure
Senior Recruiter at Airbnb
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San Francisco Bay Area
Yuan Wang
Staff Engineer at Western Digital
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Bengaluru
Rohit Gupta
Microsoft | IIT Roorkee
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San Jose, CA
Somayeh Khiyabani
Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
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San Francisco, CA
Sonia Stan
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Fremont, CA
Yulong Qiu
Software Engineer at Facebook
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Aakanksha Mitra
Student at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra
Kinect Developers Group
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Bay Area Punjabi Professionals Network
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Software Engineering Professionals
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NIT (REC) Kurukshetra Alumni Association
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Telecom | Networking | Storage | Semicon | eCommerce | Cloud
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Microsoft Digital
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Microsoft Research - Developer Division
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Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, SaaS, Data Centre & Virtualization
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