Shikha Mehta

Product Manager

Pune, Maharashtra, India6 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led a 40-member innovation committee at Microsoft.
  • Designed an Alexa microservice reducing latency by 25%.
  • Mentored engineers transitioning from non-technical backgrounds.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical Project LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (ai)Distributed SystemsGitCi/cdMicroservicesTeachingErlangBackend DevelopmentData EngineeringWeb DevelopmentUser Experience DesignResearch And DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingMobile Development

Other Skills

System DesignHiringTeam MentoringPythonCMakeBuckMercurialIncident HandlingSpring BootJavaAWSPhoenix FrameworkElixirGoREST APIs

About

Bridging code, business, and practical impact. I bring a systems-oriented approach to technology and team effectiveness, grounded in strong engineering fundamentals and shaped by real-world business needs. My experience spans large-scale distributed systems, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring engineers, with a focus on clarity, execution, and sustainable impact. I began my career at Microsoft (India) as a Full Stack Engineer, where I shipped production systems and led a 40-member innovation committee. After pursuing an MS in Computer Science, I moved into senior engineering roles at Amazon (SDE II) and Meta (IC4), working on latency-critical cloud and edge architectures, including designing an Alexa microservice that reduced user-perceived latency by 25% (P99) and contributing to 0→1 VoIP platform initiatives. Alongside technical contributions, I increasingly took on mentoring and onboarding responsibilities, collaborating across teams to improve execution and team productivity. While pursuing my MBA in Information Systems Management, I formalized this interest through a year-long volunteer role as a Software Engineering mentor, supporting a mentee from a non-technical background through her transition into software engineering. This experience reinforced my interest in structured coaching, breaking down complex systems, and supporting individual growth. To broaden this impact from individual mentoring to team-level execution, I later served as a Technical Lead at a startup building an AI-powered social accountability platform. In this role, I guided system design, supported hiring, mentored engineers, and led technical project execution—further shaping my approach to people management in fast-moving environments. I am now focused on the intersection of technology, team development, and practical business impact—applying digital strategy, structured execution, and systems thinking to help teams work more effectively and deliver scalable solutions. Core Focus: Digital Strategy & Technology | Distributed Systems | Team Mentoring | System Design | Stakeholder Management

Experience

6 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Como

Technical Lead

May 2025Jul 2025 · 2 mos · India · Remote

Technical Project LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)System DesignHiringTeam Mentoring

Meta

Software Engineer II

Jul 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Distributed SystemsGitPythonCMakeBuckMercurial

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II

Jan 2019Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Seattle, Washington · On-site

CI/CDIncident HandlingDistributed SystemsSpring BootJavaAWS+1

Uf computer & information science & engineering

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2018Dec 2018 · 4 mos · Gainesville, Florida Area · On-site

  • Assistant to Prof. Alin Dobra for Distributed Operating System Principles (COP 5615), Fall '18
ErlangTeachingPhoenix FrameworkElixir

Udacity

Backend Software Developer - Data

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Mountain View, California · On-site

  • Modified the core microservice that resolves identities in Udacity’s future data pipeline to ensure that GDPR erasure requests are appropriately handled.
  • Provisioned a single view of ads spend data that gets updated on a daily basis. Designed the ETL process and implemented Airflow jobs to onboard multiple agencies sharing these data points.
GoREST APIsPythonAirflowBackend DevelopmentData Engineering

University of florida

Web Assistant

Jul 2017Jan 2018 · 6 mos · Gainesville Metropolitan Area · On-site

  • At College of Medicine's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, my responsibilities included:
  • Creating functional and visual design elements for key strategic websites, mobile applications and other digital platforms based on end-users' requirements and needs.
  • Developing, testing and maintaining content on all platforms, with troubleshoots as needed.
GitBootstrap 4AngularJSUser Experience Design (UED)LinuxWeb Development+1

Uf computer & information science & engineering

Graduate Research Assistant

Jan 2017Jun 2017 · 5 mos · Gainesville, Florida Area · On-site

  • Volunteered efforts towards the CISE department research project - Physical Activity assessment using Wrist Accelerometer Data - under Prof. Sanjay Ranka. My key contributions included-
  • Formulating a novel Bag-of-Words approach of representing wrist accelerometer devices data and coding an N-Grams representation of this data.
  • Using features from these representations to evaluate results of common machine learning techniques in predicting the type of physical activity performed by a participant and the energy expenditure involved.
Research and Development (R&D)RResearch and Development

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jan 2015Dec 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

  • As part of MACH (Microsoft Academy of College Hires- a highly selective 2-year talent development program within Microsoft), I had the opportunity to move across different roles as well as businesses to explore varied technologies & processes.
  • During my first year, I contributed to the Volume Licensing pipeline in the Enterprise Commerce domain. I worked on business-critical applications, ensured high quality and delivered major releases with zero defects.
  • Over the next 12 months, I worked in the Work-Life Productivity team which functioned as a startup within Microsoft. The startup-like culture led to adopting agile methodologies and deliver faster releases in short sprints. I worked on building Microsoft's internal crowd-sourcing platform for new ideas. We also developed an enterprise level IoT solution for efficient usage of office spaces using Raspberry Pis and temperature, motion & sound sensors.
  • I then moved to the Sales domain and worked on a Customer Planning application to improve seller productivity by helping them in the Account Planning phase of the sales pipeline.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Jul 2014Dec 2014 · 5 mos · On-site

C#Raspberry PiMicrosoft AzureASP.NET MVCSQLSoftware Development+1

Symantec

Project Intern

Jul 2013Jun 2014 · 11 mos · Pune Area, India · Hybrid

  • Studied behavior patterns of malicious users within a corporate organization.
  • Implemented a data loss prevention (DLP) system to monitor endpoint devices for use of unknown applications to access sensitive corporate documents. The implemented prototype could intercept malicious file accesses at the driver level, and report DLP incidents to the server.
C#SQLitePythonSQLCSoftware Development

John deere

IT Summer Intern

Jun 2013Jun 2013 · 0 mo · Pune Area, India · On-site

  • • Designed a Java library to expose common APIs for sending notifications from server side to both Android and iOS mobile device clients using Google Cloud Messenger and Apple Push Notification web services.
GCMAPNSJavaMobile Development

Education

Manipal University Jaipur

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Information System Management

Feb 2024Mar 2026

University of Florida

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2017Dec 2018

Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jul 2010Jun 2014

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