Ankita Khera
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAnkita Khera is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with six years of experience building .NET productivity features and contributing to flagship open-source projects like Roslyn and the official C# extension for VS Code. She focuses on backend development, automation, and performance benchmarking—shipping features such as auto-insert comments, fix-all code actions, and compiler benchmarks that improve tooling for hundreds of thousands of .NET developers. A Virginia Tech summa cum laude graduate and former Roslyn intern, she pairs strong academic rigor with practical product impact across editor integrations, testing, and CI automation. Based in Seattle, she brings a rare blend of compiler-level insight and developer-experience engineering, plus hands-on experience writing integration tests and automating test runs to keep large codebases healthy.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
4.74 (Valedictorian), 4.74 (Valedictorian) at Forest Park High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, 3.95, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, 3.95 at Virginia Tech
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (21)
net10
dotnet10
language-server-protocol10
vscode-extension10
asp-net10
automation10
language-server10
dotnet-core10
automations10
csharp10
compiler-development9
performance-testing9
act9
integration-testing9
test-integration9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/roslyn
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1019 reviews, 741 commits, 468 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ankita primarily worked on implementing and testing features related to the Roslyn .NET compiler. Their contributions involved creating benchmark tests for the compiler's core functionalities. They made changes to existing code, adding new benchmark tests to measure and analyze the performance of the compiler in various scenarios.
roslyndotnetf-sharpcompilervisual-basic
dotnet/vscode-csharp
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Official C# support for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 17 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Ankita's contributions center on enhancing the C# support within Visual Studio Code. They implemented auto-insert comment functionality and added support for generating assets using solution paths. Moreover, the user worked on fixing auto-insert issues and adding fix-all code action support. Additionally, they integrated tests, adding a number of integration tests and made changes to automate test runs.
dotnetvisual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensionomnisharp
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