Devika Mehra
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDevika Mehra is a Software Engineer 2 with a decade of experience blending production-grade security engineering at Microsoft with cutting-edge quantum research at USC. She has shipped scalable SIEM and network threat-detection solutions used across thousands of tenants, optimized high-throughput data ingestion pipelines, and driven data-model normalization to reduce costs and investigation time. Concurrently, Devika researches quantum antivirus, crosstalk mitigation, and VQE-based molecular energy estimation, contributing to publications and implementing quantum algorithms in Qiskit and Q#. She is also an active open-source contributor, improving Azure Sentinel automation and Microsoft QuantumKatas testing and diagnostics. Comfortable across C/C++, Java, Android, web stacks, and MATLAB, she uniquely bridges classical threat engineering and quantum-secure system design. Based in Greater Seattle, she combines production impact with academic rigor to translate quantum security concepts into practical defenses.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Quantum Information Science, Master's degree Quantum Information Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of TechnologySenior Secondary, Senior Secondary at Presentation Convent Sr. Sec. School
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
cicd10
azure-sentinel10
quantum-computing10
powershell10
azure-functions9
yaml8
basics8
user-manual8
json8
learn-ruby-on-rails8
devops7
generated-code7
cybersecurity7
gridview6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/Azure-Sentinel
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:637 reviews, 316 commits, 86 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Devika's primary contribution involved modifications to PowerShell scripts, specifically for creating and managing Azure Sentinel solutions. These changes included updates to function app code, dependency checks, and the integration of new features related to Netskope data connectors. The user also implemented code for skipping specific files during validation and updating the schema validation tests. Additionally, the user worked on template specifications and validation checks related to KQL queries.
intelligentsecurity-analyticsanalyticssecuritykql
microsoft/QuantumKatas
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Tutorials and programming exercises for learning Q# and quantum computing
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Devika primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework and improving error messaging within the `microsoft/quantumkatas` repository. They updated existing test operations to verify the correctness of quantum algorithms and their implementations. Additionally, the user made changes to improve the clarity of error messages, enhancing the overall usability and debugging experience within the project. This involved modifying test operations and how they report misclassifications.
quantum-computingquantum-algorithmsqsharpquantum-programming-languagecoding-kata
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