Mehul Raheja
Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolMehul Raheja is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building backend and DevOps systems, currently at Google DeepMind after roles at Windsurf and impactful internships across Databricks, Lucid, and Citadel Securities. He’s a UC Berkeley-trained EECS practitioner who helped build SkyPilot—an open-source platform for running AI workloads across clouds—contributing reliability and cluster-management features like file locking, purge teardown, and robust job-queue/status handling. Comfortable across cloud, observability, and low-latency systems, he has shipped tooling from Prometheus/Grafana observability stacks to production-like replay automation for trading strategy profiling. Beyond core engineering, he’s taught and led ML education initiatives, designing curricula and bootcamps that translate complex research into practical skills. Notably, he blends research experience with product-grade engineering, often improving operational reliability in distributed AI infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
French, Hindi
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Github Skills (25)
cloud-manager10
python10
cloud-computing10
manage10
devops10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
job-queue9
cost-management8
job-scheduler8
microsoft-azure7
gcp7
aws7
spot-instances7
azure7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skypilot-org/skypilot
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
SkyPilot: Run AI and batch jobs on any infra (Kubernetes or 16+ clouds). Get unified execution, cost savings, and high GPU availability via a simple interface.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 52 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mehul primarily focused on improving the SkyPilot backend, particularly concerning cluster management and deployment. Their contributions included adding file locking mechanisms for cluster launch and teardown operations, enhancing the reliability and stability of these critical processes. They also modified the backend code to support features like `sky down --purge` and adding the ability to confirm job cancels. Furthermore, they have worked on improving the job queue and status, adding functionality to it.
pythonspot-instancesserverlesstpuml-infrastructure
mraheja/mraheja.github.io
Nov 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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