Puneet Kaushik
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorPuneet Kaushik is a hands-on Software Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience building OS, virtualization, storage and distributed file system technologies across Microsoft, Dell and Meta. He combines deep Windows kernel expertise with cross-platform engineering—authoring KaushOS, contributing to Facebook’s Eden/Watchman projects, and improving Windows build and dependency handling in major open-source repos. A prolific inventor, he holds 15 granted patents and 20+ pending filings, and has been recognized with awards from Michael Dell and a “SHIP IT” commendation signed by Bill Gates. He excels at scaling engineering teams—hiring, mentoring, and driving delivery—while remaining an active individual contributor on hard systems problems. Based in Menlo Park, he brings rare end-to-end experience from bootloader to cloud services and a proven knack for shipping complex, cross-platform tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
filesystem10
c-language10
python10
wp-api10
windows10
build-system10
cmake10
winapi10
jdeps10
control-systems10
gets10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
scripting9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/sapling
Mar 2018 - May 2020
A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Puneet primarily focused on enhancing the `facebook/sapling` source control system with Windows compatibility. Their contributions involved merging Windows and POSIX versions of EdenMount, implementing readdir functionality for Windows, and introducing a SQLite-based overlay for inode support on Windows. They also updated the EdenDispatcher to utilize Inode-backed file system data on Windows and enabled hg status and update operations.
control-systemscalablesource-controluser-friendly
facebook/watchman
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Puneet primarily contributed to the build system and dependency management within the Watchman repository. Their work included adding features like passing the vcvarsall path on the command line for Windows builds, and adding a subclass to copy dynamic dependencies for PE executables. They also refactored code related to the build process to accommodate Windows-specific configurations and corrected output. These contributions focused on improving the build process across platforms.
triggersrecordswatches
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