Kavya Kotacherry
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKavya Kotacherry is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12+ years of software engineering and leadership experience focused on delivering reliable, production-grade systems. She progressed through individual contributor roles into management at Microsoft, blending hands-on coding with team leadership since 2008 and driving engineering strategy from Redmond. Her contributions to the popular Microsoft C++ REST SDK demonstrate a continued attention to code quality, testing, and cross-branch integration in cloud-connected native code. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, she balances bug fixes and build reliability with mentoring teams to ship robust services at scale. Trained in computer science at NIT Karnataka, she brings both deep technical roots and long-term enterprise product experience to complex backend and cloud engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Github Skills (7)
http10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
async9
cpp-library9
websocket7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/cpprestsdk
Jun 2014 - Oct 2016
The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 23 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kavya made several commits related to testing and code improvements within the C++ REST SDK. Their work includes modifying and removing comments in functional test files, fixing build errors, and merging code branches. They also addressed specific issues by ignoring certain tests and integrating changes from other branches. This suggests a focus on quality assurance, bug fixing, and code integration within the library.
client-serverserver-client-communicationasyncmicrosoftcpp-library
kavyako/envoy
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 4 comments in 4 months
cppservice-proxyproxy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.