Puneet Kaushik
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolPuneet 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.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
filesystem10
c-language10
python10
wp-api10
windows10
build-system10
cmake10
winapi10
jdeps10
controls10
control-systems10
gets10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
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/fbthrift
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a new C++ server.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Puneet primarily contributed to build system and Windows compatibility improvements for the fbthrift project. They fixed build issues for MSVC, added support for passing the vcvarsall path, and modified the build process to correctly handle dependencies for PE executables on Windows. Furthermore, the user made changes to the getdeps script, specifically by moving print statements to stderr and extending functionality.
cppapache-thriftc-plus-plusapachefacebook
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