Akshat Goel is a Staff Software Engineer at DoorDash, where he builds the Storage Access Platform, a unified abstraction layer powering all online data stores. He currently co-leads initiatives like Taulu, a Table-as-a-Service system that provides developers with scalable and reliable storage primitives. Previously, Akshat worked at Amazon on AWS Timestream, focusing on ingestion systems, developer SDKs, rate limiting, and encryption solutions. His passion lies in designing developer-friendly platforms that abstract away the complexity of large-scale distributed systems.