Maanya Goenka
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaanya Goenka is a Software Engineer focused on low-level infrastructure and system tooling, currently contributing to Borg infrastructure at Google after impactful work in Microsoft's Linux Systems Group and Azure Boost. With about three years of professional experience, she’s built production-grade tooling for systemd and contributed enhancements to system extension and configuration merging in the widely used systemd project. Her background blends performance-sensitive virtualization work—offloading hypervisor responsibilities onto Linux-based NIC cards—with open-source engineering and developer-facing static analysis tools. A Carleton College magna cum laude graduate, she pairs strong academic research experience (HCI and data analysis publications) with practical product impact, from reducing manual support time via chatbots to shipping telemetry and servicing features at cloud scale.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
ISC, Computer Science, 1-12, ISC, Computer Science, 1-12 at La Martiniere For GirlsBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics at Carleton CollegeFall Term Course, iOS Development, Fall Term Course, iOS Development at CodePath
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (12)
c1710
init10
system10
configuration-management10
systemd10
linux10
c-programming10
c1110
architecture9
overlayfs9
architectures9
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
systemd/systemd
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
The systemd System and Service Manager
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:28 reviews, 21 PRs, 41 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Maanya's primary contribution focuses on enhancing the systemd project's system extension (sysext) and system configuration extension (confext) functionalities. They implemented compatibility checks between host files and extension release files, enabling the merging of confext images. Code changes include updates to `extension-util.c`, `sysext.c`, `namespace.c`, and `os-util.c` to support the new confext image type and its associated release file parsing. Further enhancements involved adding dissect tool support and tests for confext, including integration with portable services.
servicesservice-managervagrantlinuxinit
goenkam/systemd
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
The systemd System and Service Manager
Contributions:2 PRs, 341 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 3 months
service-managerlinuxsystemd
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