Summary
Maya Jha is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant systems and observability solutions, currently leading engineering at New Relic after a multi-year tenure at Amazon. She blends strong ML and big-data academic training from UIUC with hands-on expertise in data integration, distributed systems, and customer-facing commerce flows, having designed data ingestion pipelines for terabyte-scale sources and complex checkout and promotion services. Maya is a pragmatic engineering leader who coaches junior engineers, drives full lifecycle delivery, and has a track record of automating processes across Python, C#, and cloud-native platforms. Her background in geomatics and oil-spill detection research gives her a distinctive edge in spatial data and analytics problems, pairing domain sensitivity with production-grade software craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MSc Geomatics Engineering, MSc Geomatics Engineering at University of Calgary