Meha Kaushik
Software Engineer at DoorDash
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeha Kaushik is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and storage infrastructure, currently on DoorDash's Core Infrastructure storage team in Seattle. She holds a Masters by Research from IIIT-Hyderabad and has a strong research background in deep reinforcement learning for simulated driving, with multiple peer-reviewed publications and a NeurIPS workshop paper. At Microsoft she contributed to the Azure SDK for .NET and Azure PowerShell—notably improving CosmosDB SDKs and testing for cloud database scenarios—bridging research sensibilities with production-grade cloud engineering. Meha maintains the open-source MADRaS RL simulator, reflecting a continued commitment to reproducible applied RL tooling. She mentors early-career engineers and women in tech, combining hands-on coding with coaching, and enjoys turning ML research into reliable software. An often-overlooked strength is her cross-domain fluency: from embedded computer vision prototypes on Raspberry Pi to large-scale cloud SDKs.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)High School, High School at St. Xaviers's Senior Secondary School, Jaipur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (21)
apidoc10
azure-sdk10
testing10
net10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
cosmosdb10
asp-net10
azure-powershell10
api10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
azure10
csharp10
microsoft9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Dec 2019 - Aug 2020
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Meha primarily contributed to the CosmosDB SDK, focusing on implementing and fixing features related to the database account and Cassandra keyspaces. Their work involved generating SDKs from AutoRest, adding tests for various APIs (CosmosDBAccount, Sql operations), and updating the SDK with the latest swagger specifications. Significant changes include updates to generated code and fixes to long-running operations, demonstrating proficiency in the SDK's internal structure and API interactions. They also made several version changes for CosmosDB sdk.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
Azure/azure-powershell
Feb 2020 - Jan 2021
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:68 reviews, 14 commits, 27 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Meha primarily contributed to the Azure PowerShell module, specifically focusing on testing and expanding functionality for various Azure services. The commits demonstrate the development of testing scenarios, including those for application gateways and CosmosDB, and for supporting the implementation of new cmdlets for database management. Their work also involved refactoring existing code and fixing identified bugs in the module. The changes across multiple areas of the Azure platform showcase a strong involvement in ensuring the quality, functionality, and maintainability of the PowerShell module.
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