Sanya Kochhar
Senior Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSanya Kochhar is a Senior Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft with five years of hands-on experience building cloud-native and service-mesh infrastructure for Azure Kubernetes Service. She has contributed to the Open Service Mesh project—adding CLI features, improving install tests, and refactoring Envoy configuration—demonstrating a strong backend and DevOps focus. At Microsoft she progressed through roles on AKS traffic and container upstream teams, shipping upgrades and release tooling for Istio-based add-ons. A Duke CS graduate with experience in machine-learning research and web-scale crawling systems, she brings both rigorous engineering and cross-disciplinary curiosity to platform reliability and developer tooling. Notably, her background spans production-grade cloud automation and open-source collaboration, pairing practical release engineering with a knack for improving observability and installability.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Duke University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
testing10
dockers9
convoy9
envoyproxy9
env9
docker9
cicd8
helm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openservicemesh/osm
Jul 2020 - Nov 2022
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:188 reviews, 138 commits, 139 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sanya primarily contributed to the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project by implementing features for the command-line interface (CLI) and enhancing the installation process. They added a "mesh list" command to the CLI, allowing users to view control planes, and made updates to the install tests, including enabling Fluent Bit and ensuring the Grafana installation defaulted to disabled. Additionally, they refactored and improved the code related to Envoy configuration and test setup. These contributions involved modifications to both the code and the testing framework.
observabilitymicroservicesecuremicroservicesextensible
SanyaKochhar/aks-periscope
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
aks-periscope aims to detect various kubernetes cluster problems
Contributions:43 reviews, 29 PRs, 140 pushes in 5 months
periscopeproblemsdetectkubernetesaims
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