Vishaal Mehrishi
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVishaal Mehrishi is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Amsterdam with over five years of experience building backend systems at Amazon that solve business problems at scale. He is a tech lead on the AWS Cloud Development Kit, and led backend work for Amazon Q Developer Agent—taking his proof-of-concept to GA within a year—demonstrating a knack for rapid productization and cross-disciplinary trade-offs between engineering and research. Vishaal also helped launch Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environments, showing experience in developer tooling and cloud infrastructure. His background spans systems integration, C#/.NET enterprise tooling, and a strong academic foundation in computer science, complemented by early work in speech recognition research. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances long-term architecture with shipping high-impact features quickly.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (I.C.S.E), Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (I.C.S.E) at Maneckji Cooper SchoolHigher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C), Higher Secondary Certificate (H.S.C) at Jai Hindu jobsBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Watumull Institute of Electronics Engineering and Computer Technology, University of MumbaiMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.43, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.43 at George Mason University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
lambda10
aws-lambda10
serverless10
debug10
jetbrains10
aws10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
jetbrains-ides10
amazon10
sam10
exec10
browser9
toolkits5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vishaalmehrishi/ihelp
May 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 10 months
aws/aws-toolkit-vscode
Mar 2024 - May 2024
Amazon Q, CodeCatalyst, Local Lambda debug, SAM/CFN syntax, ECS Terminal, AWS resources
Contributions:19 reviews, 9 comments in 2 months
aws-lambdaserverlessaws-resourcesawsecs-exec
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