Lakshay Kaushik
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Top SchoolLakshay Kaushik is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with eight years of experience building and leading teams across frontend, backend and developer experience for 1st-party Azure services. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles in telecom and e‑commerce to managing managers and accelerating scientific discovery with AI, agentic frameworks, and augmented generation. Comfortable across cloud-native architectures, performance engineering and security, he has practical DevOps chops evidenced by contributions to widely used projects like Homebrew's installer scripts. Based in Noida, he blends technical depth with people leadership and a one-year Executive General Management stint at IIM Ahmedabad. Outside of core engineering he is motivated to apply technology to social impact areas such as child welfare, education and animal well‑being.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
1 year Executive General Management General Management, 1 year Executive General Management General Management at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad12th- science CBSE- Physics Chemistry Mathematics, 12th- science CBSE- Physics Chemistry Mathematics at Green Fields School, Safdarjang Enclave, New DelhiB.Tech ECE, B.Tech ECE at Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
Hindi, French, English
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Github Skills (21)
scripting10
ruby10
homebrew10
script10
installer10
sh10
postinstall10
shell10
installers10
macos9
linux8
device-mapper6
devops6
dns6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/install
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
📥 Homebrew (un)installer
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lakshay primarily focused on improving the installation and uninstallation scripts of Homebrew. Their contributions include modifying abort messages, and refactoring parts of the sudo access logic on macOS and Linux. They also made some updates to the install.sh and uninstall.sh scripts. The commits show a focus on the correct handling of user permissions, and environment variables.
installerrubyinstallmacoshomebrew
lakshaykaushik/PublishHTMLReport
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Azdo Extension- Publish Jmeter Reports to Azure Devops
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 26 commits in 10 months
publishreportsdevopsjmeterazdo
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