Abhishek Verma has an impressive academic and professional background that revolves around distributed systems. He completed his Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli and continued his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science.

As for his professional experience, Abhishek worked as a Research Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services, a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Teaching Fellow at Teach For India, a software engineer at Google, and a Senior Software Engineer at Uber. He is currently a Staff Software Engineer at Google.

Abhishek is passionate about building and understanding distributed systems, as evidenced by his involvement in various research and teaching positions. His expertise revolves around design, implementation, simulation, and performance modeling of such systems.