Ankit Arora

About Ankit Arora

Senior Member of Technical Staff at Oracle with 9+ years of experience in backend development, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.Skilled in building secure, scalable, and reliable systems for Database as a Service (DBaaS) on Oracle Exadata hardware.Proven track record of owning critical features end-to-end, driving innovation, optimizing performance, and ensuring high availability in production environments.Strong expertise in Python, codex, Cline, MySQL, Java, Xen/KVM virtualization, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), using generative AI for improving productivity - writing UTs, troubleshooting issues and coming up with thoughtful designs and modern automation/testing frameworks.Used Cline for creating an automatic unit test generation framework with feedback enablement. Also, used codex to generate an automatic unit test generation framework which would read a config file with code and test file paths. The framework has a ut runner script which internally invokes codex cli and provides an instruction set (created in a separate file) to codex to automatically generate unit tests with feedback loop enabled to write correct runnable unit tests. The UT runner script also takes care of running codex cli in multiple iterations improving code coverage in each iteration with codex prompt having control of saving state for next iteration from the previous one.Created a codex framework to detect resource leakage issues across the code base (using a python runner script which takes in 20 files in a batch and auto calculates number of batches to execute).

Experience

1. Senior Member of Technical Staff

   Oracle

   Feb 2022 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I am a backend developer in the Oracle Exadata Cloud team, working on provisioning and managing high-availability clusters for Database as a Service (DBaaS) on Oracle’s Exadata hardware. My focus is on building secure, scalable, and reliable systems that integrate with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).I have delivered several critical features, including IPv6 support in Exacloud, Disaster Recovery Network support, secure erase API, stale resource detection scripts, rebalance percentage progress tracking, griddisk resize prechecks, and an error framework for validating physical interfaces during ExaCC health checks. I also developed TLS 1.3 HTTPS support, log collection and cleanup schedulers, filesystem management APIs, and recently completed work on Oracle’s Advanced Queue mechanism for asynchronous responses between Exacloud and ECRA.Beyond features, I drove a proof-of-concept for Precision Time Protocol (PTP) using clockwork packages and FastConnect to minimize VM cluster clock offsets. I optimized memory and storage resize operations, implemented file lock management and cleanup, built in-memory caches to reduce SSH latency, and enhanced automated test frameworks to detect issues early.I have strong experience in production operations—supporting customers on-call, mitigating incidents, performing root cause analysis, and generating weekly reports to reduce provisioning failures. I work closely with cross-functional teams, guide new joiners, and review code to maintain quality.Technologies used: Python, Java, MySQL, Xen, KVM, OCI, Paramiko, TLS, Oracle Advanced Queue, unit/integration testing, and automation frameworks. I also leverage AI tools to improve debugging, productivity, and issue resolution. Recently used Cline and codex for creating an automatic unit test generation framework with feedback enablement.Created a codex framework to detect resource leakage issues across the code base (using a python runner script which takes in 20 files/batch).

Education

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  Master of Technology (MTech), Information Technology (specialization in Software Engineering)

  2014 — 2016

• St. Peter's College, Agra

  ICSE board

  1998 — 2010

• Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering with specialization in Electronics

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Android Development
• C
• Programming
• Restful Webservices
• Functional Verification
• C#
• Struts
• Eclipse
• Python
• Bootstrap
• Algorithms
• Visual Studio
• Swing
• Data Structures
• Javascript
• Web Application Development
• Verilog
• Microcontrollers
• Jquery
• Java
• Perl
• Cloud Storage
• Shell Scripting
• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• Digital Design
• Vlsi
• Soc
• Node.js
• Jsp
• Mysql
• Tempest
• Openstack