Aakanksha Mitra is a Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb, focusing on enhancing the efficiency of PowerPoint Online services since September 2021. Prior to this role, Aakanksha spent over a decade at Microsoft in various positions, including Senior Software Engineer and Software Developer, where key contributions included the design of the PowerPoint Designer and improvements in SQL query performance for OEM activations. Aakanksha's experience encompasses developing cross-platform logging frameworks, leading projects for Knowledge Management Portals, and automating testing processes. Aakanksha holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra, completed in 2011.