Akshat Mahajan

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I turn complex distributed systems into friendly, reliable APIs.

Currently I work at Cloudflare on the Privacy Edge team. Over 7 years, my work has spanned many domains.

Low-level networking

On the Argo Smart Routing team, I built global routing tables for TCP and UDP proxies, utilizing our own framing, connection-pooling and tunneling logic.

I have traced TLS packet corruption with Wireshark and mtr to individual middleboxes; written and deployed a packet parser for the MPLS protocol; and measured wait times in the kernel queue by reading control messages from Linux sockets.

Systems design

I wrote and deployed the first Rust library for the web bot auth protocol, which runs millions of times a second on Cloudflare's edge network.

As part of Brown research, I hacked gRPC to guarantee only permitted call sites could remotely access PII.