Mahesh Rohera
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMahesh Rohera is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience architecting and delivering embedded systems and device drivers for wireless and IoT platforms, currently driving technical work at Microsoft in Washington, D.C. He brings deep kernel, OS and middleware expertise from senior engineering and leadership roles at Qualcomm where he led PMIC driver development, device driver frameworks, and on-target debugger initiatives for complex SoC subsystems. Comfortable across multiprocessor design, profiling and low-power sensor DSP work, he also blends hands-on firmware with technical project management and agile delivery. An active contributor to Azure open-source projects, his work spans improving Event Hubs receivers, enabling IoT Edge multi-architecture builds, and streamlining certificate tooling for Azure IoT C SDKs. Known for turning pre-silicon designs into production-ready bring-ups, he pairs systems-level rigor with practical tooling improvements that accelerate developer and platform adoption.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering - Computer Networks, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering - Computer Networks at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronics Engineering at University of Mumbai
Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Apr 2017 - Sep 2019
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:205 commits, 211 PRs, 645 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mahesh contributed significantly to the infrastructure and build processes of the IoT Edge project. Their work included adding initial Docker image support for ARM and x64 architectures by modifying build scripts to support image building and pushing. Furthermore, they added changes to existing scripts, such as the buildDockerImage.sh and buildBranch.sh, that were related to build processes, including managing environment variables and setting up the build directory, which improved the automated build process. They also introduced new testing capabilities to the project by creating various run and test shell scripts.
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Azure/azure-event-hubs
Oct 2016 - Mar 2017
☁️ Cloud-scale telemetry ingestion from any stream of data with Azure Event Hubs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 10 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mahesh primarily worked on enhancing the Event Hub receiver client library, implementing new features and refactoring existing code. Their contributions included adding initial versions of receiver header files, implementing core receiver functionalities, and creating callbacks for async operations. The user also worked on build and test infrastructure by updating setup scripts and integrating unit tests.
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