Ashwini Challa
Hyderabad, Sindh, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwini Challa is a software engineer and technical leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI, ML and distributed systems across startups and large tech companies. She has led Conversational AI and NLG efforts at Meta (including integrity work for Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses) and drove enterprise NLP and text-extraction adoption as a technical lead at Snorkel AI. Her background spans deep learning, language modeling, CI/CD and large-scale data platforms (Spark, Kafka, Ray/Dask), and she has hands-on experience automating Azure Pipelines and test agent deployments in widely used Microsoft repos. As a founding engineer at a security startup, she blends product-minded engineering with operational rigor and a knack for hardening ML systems against misuse. Trained at Carnegie Mellon and NIT Warangal, she pairs research-informed approaches with pragmatic delivery in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National Institute of Technology WarangalMaster of Software Engineering Computer Science, Master of Software Engineering Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (10)
test-automation10
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
csharp10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
ant9
maven9
code-coverage9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:185 commits, 116 PRs, 148 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashwini's primary focus was on the deployment and configuration of test agents within the Azure Pipelines ecosystem, working with PowerShell scripts to automate the deployment and setup processes. They contributed by adding new features like disabling the screen saver, fixing test agent installation issues, and improving the overall reliability of the deployment tasks. Additionally, they enabled and configured code coverage for Maven and ANT build processes.
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microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 13 PRs, 59 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashwini primarily focused on modifying the `JobDispatcher.cs` file, specifically in the context of publishing test results. This suggests a role in managing and coordinating jobs, potentially within a build or deployment pipeline, related to test results publication. The user's changes include code adjustments related to job dispatching and handling cancellation requests.
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