Madhuri Gummalla
Director, Engineering at Microsoft
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadhuri Gummalla is a seasoned engineering leader with 11+ years of experience building and scaling teams and products across Microsoft, GitHub, and Meta, currently serving as Director of Engineering. She has grown and led teams from small (5 engineers) to large (80 engineers), prioritizing inclusive culture, technical vision, and strong alignment with product and business goals. Deeply hands-on early in her career, Madhuri contributed to high-profile open-source Azure Pipelines projects, improving task libraries, test automation, and secure tooling integrations that enhanced developer and CI/CD experiences. Known for coaching and talent development, she pairs customer-focused strategy with pragmatic engineering trade-offs to deliver reliable services at scale. Based in Morrisville, NC, she brings a rare combination of release engineering, backend automation, and leadership that helps organizations ship complex software efficiently.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and engineering at Andhra University
Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
ios10
mobile-development10
xamarin10
cicd10
automation10
android10
azure-pipelines10
automations10
build-system9
powershell9
typescripts8
gradlew8
javas8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-task-lib
Jun 2016 - Apr 2018
Libraries for writing VSTS and TFS build tasks
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:39 commits, 30 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Madhuri primarily focused on enhancing the task library's functionality and improving testing capabilities. They added features to retrieve endpoint data, authorization schemes, and parameters for service endpoints. Furthermore, the user implemented unit tests and integrated disk operations, alongside supporting secure files. A significant contribution was enabling tool output piping.
tfsvsts
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Apr 2015 - May 2019
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:242 commits, 410 PRs, 523 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Madhuri implemented and improved various tasks for the Azure Pipelines platform, focusing on automation and integration with third-party tools. Contributions include creating and updating tasks related to Ant and Xamarin projects, as well as building utility tasks for Android and iOS projects. The user worked on creating, improving, and integrating test tasks, with a focus on improving the developer experience.
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