Summary
Khushali Desai is a senior software engineer and open source contributor with 11 years of experience building reliable infrastructure and AI/ML runtime integrations. Based in San Jose, she blends SRE and backend expertise—Go, Java, Python—with hands-on contributions to Hugging Face Transformers and PyTorch Inductor, implementing TF32 backend controls and improving evaluation workflows. She has driven cross-team cloud and licensing projects at Extreme Networks and led capacity and compliance tooling at Target, demonstrating both product-focused delivery and deep systems debugging using git bisect to trace upstream issues. At Remitly and Walmart Labs she designed resilient payment integrations and operational monitoring that raised service visibility and reduced incident duration. A two-time Google Summer of Code mentor, she pairs mentorship and community engagement with pragmatic engineering, having built internal tools that saved dozens of hours weekly. Her work shows a rare mix of low-level numeric correctness in ML stacks and large-scale operational design for enterprise systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at San José State University
Post-Graduation Diploma in Computer Application, Computer Software Technology, Post-Graduation Diploma in Computer Application, Computer Software Technology at Maharaja Sayajirao University Vadodara
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.), Computer Science at Nirma Institute Of Technology
Gujarati, English, Hindi