Meena Balakrishnan
Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeena Balakrishnan is a Group Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading global teams to build exabyte-scale data infrastructure and realtime communication platforms for enterprises. Currently at Microsoft, she drives Azure’s AI-ready data pipeline strategy—combining greenfield ingestion engines with large-scale governance to power generative AI workloads. Previously she led product and platform engineering at Meta and built Tableau Prep’s data-management products as Director of Engineering, shipping multiple 0→1 offerings used by millions. Hands-on early in her career at Microsoft and Adobe, she still contributes to open-source developer tooling—improving React Native debugging in the popular VS Code ecosystem. Known for translating experimental systems into hyperscale production services, she blends deep technical craft with cross-cultural leadership across the US, India, and China.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B Tech Information Technology, B Tech Information Technology at College of Engineering, Guindy
Github Skills (15)
javascript10
react-native10
vscode-extension10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
debugging9
npm8
android7
vscode7
android-developer7
android-developers7
expo7
mobile7
ios7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-react-native
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
VSCode extension for React Native - supports debugging and editor integration
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:99 commits, 17 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Meena's commits primarily focus on enhancing the React Native debugging experience within the VS Code extension. They implemented and improved packager commands, including starting and stopping functionality. The user also addressed issues related to the debugger setup, including the handling of source maps and the integration of the debugger proxy, thus contributing to a smoother debugging workflow. Furthermore, the user refactored the logging mechanism and introduced a status bar indicator to provide feedback on the packager's state.
debuggingreact-nativevscode-extensionvscodedebugger
microsoft/TACO
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Tools for Apache Cordova
Contributions:379 commits, 35 PRs, 44 pushes in 8 months
apache-cordova
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