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Akanksha Sharan

Akanksha Sharan

Engineering the Systems Behind Modern AI Platforms

Seattle, Washington, United States

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Akanksha Sharan is a distributed systems and infrastructure engineer with experience building large-scale platforms at Meta and Amazon. Her work focuses on AI infrastructure, compute orchestration, datacenter migration, experimentation platforms, and high-scale backend systems operating under real-world reliability and capacity constraints.

At Meta, she has contributed to large-scale AI infrastructure initiatives including GPU capacity orchestration, cross-region compute redistribution systems, and datacenter migration efforts supporting global production workloads. She has also worked on foundational experimentation and attribution platforms powering monetization systems at Meta scale. Prior to Meta, she worked at Amazon on distributed migration platforms, infrastructure modernization, fraud detection systems, and large-scale payments architectures serving global marketplaces.

Akanksha is particularly interested in the intersection of distributed systems, infrastructure reliability, and responsible AI. She enjoys speaking about operational scaling, infrastructure evolution, system reliability under uncertainty, and the engineering challenges behind building dependable AI systems at scale.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Travel & Tourism

Topics

  • Distributed Systems
  • AI Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Reliability
  • Platform Engineering
  • Scalability Engineering
  • Backend Engineering
  • Compute Orchestration
  • Distributed Coordination Systems
  • Fault-Tolerant Systems
  • Cloud Infrastructure
  • Responsible AI Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure Modernization
  • High-Scale Backend Systems
  • Datacenter Infrastructure
  • Reliability Engineering

Akanksha Sharan

Engineering the Systems Behind Modern AI Platforms

Seattle, Washington, United States

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