Huma Sara Akhtar

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Senior Engineering Manager, Compass Bio - LSP · Rust · CLI design

Compass Bio
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
IIT Bombay
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

I lead developer tools at Compass Bio in Chennai. Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 27% in two quarters. Before that: Myntra and Bosch. Learning Japanese, slowly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Second opinions on VS Code extensions decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about developer tools
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests
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Skills
VS Code extensionsSparkTypeScriptcompilersRustCLI designLSP

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    May 2025 - Present
    Compass Bio · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 19% in two quarters.
    • Moved 70% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Software Engineer
    Jan 2023 - May 2025
    Myntra · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 24% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 2.
  3. Software Engineer
    Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
    Bosch · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 36 a week to 3.
  4. Software Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
    Zomato · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 35% in two quarters.
    • Wrote the Spark service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
  5. Software Engineer
    Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
    Zerodha · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 771ms to 131ms.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from developer experience
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling developer tools.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay
    B.Tech, Computer Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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