Akshat Anand

SDE2 @ Barclays · backend, distributed systems, AI agents, Inference

15 PRs merged upstream into vLLM, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, Kubernetes and VS Code

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About me

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    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 Cloud Practitioner", "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": 15,
        "projects": [
            "vLLM", "SGLang", "NVIDIA Dynamo", "Kubernetes",
            "VS Code", "Playwright", "Appwrite", "Apple Pkl",
        ],
    }

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Now

• Building antibody: every fix becomes a verified Semgrep rule that coding agents can't break, enforced on agent edits and in CI
• Building codereviewer_agent: multi-agent PR reviewer with unified RAG
• Building briefly: AI briefing agent on Cloudflare Workers AI

Recent contributions · 2026

• ✅ VS Code: keep the paused debug location range valid in chat (#342379)
• ✅ vLLM: serve Gemma 4 on /v1/systemone and /v1/decisions (#62303)
• ✅ 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: _total suffix 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 let expression (#1383)

_{✅ merged upstream · newest first}

Projects

• antibody: every fix becomes a rule your AI coding agent can't break. The LLM writes the check once, proves it against the real fix, and Semgrep enforces it on every agent edit and in CI. Python · Semgrep · static analysis · Claude Code
• codereviewer_agent: LangGraph PR review pipeline with pgvector RAG
• 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}