Shailja Khurana
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShailja Khurana is a software development engineer based in Redmond with three years of professional experience across Microsoft and Amazon, currently building cloud-enabled systems at Amazon. She brings a strong background in developer support and infrastructure engineering, having transitioned from Developer Support Engineer to SDE while contributing to large-scale cloud tooling. Shailja is an active open-source contributor to the widely used AWS CDK project, where she improved S3 and CodeBuild documentation, fixed a Lambda Insights Layer ARN bug, and added contributor insight rules for VPC endpoint services—work that reflects attention to both correctness and developer experience. Her earlier roles span NLP engineering and research, giving her a blend of applied ML familiarity and production engineering chops. Colleagues describe her as detail-oriented and pragmatic, able to translate complex cloud configurations into clear documentation and robust code.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Programming, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Programming at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
English, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
aws-cdk10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
cloud-services10
documentation10
typescript9
typescript-types9
typescripts9
s3-bucket8
lambdas8
amazon-ec28
amazon-s38
codebuild8
lambda8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:1 review, 21 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shailja's contributions focused on improving documentation and modifying the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) code. They updated documentation related to S3 bucket policies and CodeBuild image return types, ensuring accuracy and clarity. Furthermore, they addressed a bug in the Lambda Insights Layer ARN configuration, fixing incorrect values. Additionally, they implemented contributor insight rules for VPC endpoint services.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
aws-github-ops/handle-stale-discussions
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 27 reviews, 24 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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