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# Ankita Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Lead Software Engineer @Qualys \| Ex\-IBMer \| Node\.js \+ Cloud Security \| GenAI Leader \| IoT & Connected Cars Enthusiast \.\.

## About

As a Lead Software Engineer at Qualys since January 2025, I focus on developing secure and high\-performance backend systems\. With expertise in cloud security, systems design, and technical consultation, I contribute to creating scalable and resilient solutions for complex business environments\. My role emphasizes leveraging cutting\-edge technologies to design cloud\-native architectures that drive value for diverse use cases\. Building on more than a decade of experience, including 9\.5 years as a Technical Consultant at IBM, my work prioritizes empowering organizations through innovative and robust platforms\. With a passion for secure systems and modern technology integration, I aim to enable organizations to achieve their strategic goals while maintaining high standards of performance and security\.

## Location

Pune Division

## AI stack

aistudio

antigravity

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

## Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Qualys, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune District, Architected scalable graph\-processing infrastructure for GCP cloud security analysis, enabling relationship\-based exposure detection across IAM, firewall, networking, and externally accessible resources — JanusGraph/Gremlin backed by Cassandra and Elasticsearch\. Designed a topological\-sort–based rule annotation engine that orders dependent security\-state computations correctly across distributed asynchronous workflows — effectively a job/dependency orchestration layer\. Engineered high\-throughput Kafka ingestion of continuous cloud resource\-state changes to maintain near real\-time graph consistency\. Currently building a Java agentless cloud\-resource scanning system — assessing customers' cloud infrastructure without per\-host agents, designed for scale and low operational footprint\. Reduced graph traversal query latency \~30–40% by redesigning schema and Gremlin indexing strategies\. Built scalable orchestration workflows for dynamically provisioned scan infrastructure, improving operational efficiency and reducing persistent infrastructure overhead\. Designed and operate distributed microservices on Kubernetes — containerized deployment, pod lifecycle, and self\-healing, fault\-tolerant operation; stabilized CI/CD across services \(Jenkins, Docker\)\. Hardened reliability with idempotent processing, retries, and recovery; operated Elasticsearch/OpenSearch for telemetry, log, and event indexing; contributed HLD/LLD and Terraform provisioning; mentored engineers through design and code reviews\.

Technical Consultant at IBM, Jul 2015 \- Jan 2025 · 9 yrs 7 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Led backend development for a Tier\-1 automotive OEM connected\-car platform deployed across India, Europe, and Japan, processing high\-volume vehicle telemetry \(thousands of events/sec\)\. Engineered region\-specific backend services and integrations for multi\-geography production environments with localization and regional constraints\. Owned production support for live, customer\-facing multi\-region systems — incident response, reliability, and operational stability for connected\-vehicle services\. Architected Kafka\-based event\-driven ingestion for reliable, high\-throughput streaming and telemetry processing\. Built distributed Node\.js services with high availability, asynchronous processing, and fault\-tolerant workflows; implemented Kafka retention/replay for self\-recovery of failed events\. Designed and optimized Azure CI/CD pipelines; implemented secure OAuth 2\.0 integrations; mentored engineers and led code and technical\-design reviews\.

Secretary at IEEE Women In Engineering\- WIE Affinity group, LNMIIT, Jul 2014 \- May 2015 · 11 mos, Jaipur

Lecturer at Swami Keshwanand Institute of Technology, management and Gramothan, Aug 2010 \- Dec 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

## Education

M\.Tech\., Computer Science, LNMIIT, Jaipur

B\.Tech\., Information Technology, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota

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