Mehak Bindra

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States5 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Developed advanced tools for AI integration at Microsoft.
Published research in Nature Communications and Genome Research.
Experience in both software engineering and computational biology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in AI and Computational Biology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai AgentsSoftware InfrastructureComputational BiologyBioinformaticsSoftware DevelopmentGenome AssemblyMicroservicesMachine LearningDeep Learning

Other Skills

Software DesignSingle Cell GenomicsResearch and Development (R&D)C++AlgorithmsJavaSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)REST APIsPython (Programming Language)Data ScienceExperimental PhysicsStatisticsProbabilistic ModelsInformation RetrievalNatural Language Processing (NLP)

About

As a Software Engineer at Microsoft, I develop advanced tools for intelligent agents and AI integration in Microsoft Teams. My research background is in single-cell genomics and computational biology, where I led extensions of Symsim for multi-species transcriptomic simulations and developed VAE-based models like scDisinfact to learn disentangled biological factors and predict perturbations. I also designed a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) framework to model and simulate spatial transcriptomic data. I hold a Master of Science in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science and Physics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. I bring two years of professional software development experience at Apple and a year of research in algorithmic techniques for computational genomics at the Indian Institute of Science.

Experience

5 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

1 yr

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Redmond, Washington, United States · On-site

Developing the Teams AI Library, a modular SDK for building intelligent agents in Microsoft Teams, featuring advanced conversation orchestration, activity and route handlers, event-driven architecture, plugin extensibility, and integration with Azure and OpenAI models

Software InfrastructureSoftware DesignAI Agents

Software Engineer Intern

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos · United States · On-site

Built a human-in-the-loop Q&A support agent with backend issue tracking using the Teams AI Library, leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with automated debugging and Azure deployment pipelines for scalable enterprise data interactions.

Software DevelopmentSoftware Design

Georgia institute of technology

2 roles

Research Assistant

Aug 2024 – May 2025 · 9 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · On-site

Developed a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) framework to model and simulate spatial distribution of cell types across tissues and domains, ultimately enabling the rapid generation of diverse and realistic spatial transcriptomic datasets.

Single Cell GenomicsComputational BiologyDeep LearningBioinformaticsResearch and Development (R&D)

Research Assistant

Aug 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · On-site

Advancing Single-Cell Transcriptomics & Multi-Species Analysis
Extended Symsim, a single-cell transcriptomics simulator, to generate synthetic cross-species scRNA-seq datasets that effectively replicate the evolutionary dynamics observed in real biological samples, facilitating benchmarking of multi-species scRNA-seq analysis tools.
Developed a VAE architecture to eliminate technical batch effects in scRNA-seq datasets, disentangle biological latent factors (cell types) from condition signals (disease severity), and perform condition-associated key gene detection and perturbation prediction on all factors.
Research work published in Nature Communications.

Single Cell GenomicsComputational BiologyDeep LearningBioinformaticsResearch and Development (R&D)

Indian institute of science (iisc)

Project Associate II

Aug 2022 – Jun 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Author of RAFT (Repeat Aware Fragmentation Tool), a scalable algorithm capable of enhancing long-read haplotype-resolved de novo genome assembly by reducing variance in read length distributions through selective read fragmentation.
Achieved twofold increase in the assembly NG50 and the number of haplotype-resolved T2T contigs compared to Hifiasm.
Authored a research paper based on this work published in Genome Research and presented at ISMB 2024.

C++Computational BiologyAlgorithmsGenome AssemblyBioinformatics

Apple

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Introduced T-Mobile financing into the Apple retail store app for 270+ locations through API integration across multiple services.
Transitioned trade-in, carrier activation and financing features from a legacy monolithic to micro-services architecture.

JavaMicroservicesSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)REST APIsSoftware Development

Machine Learning Intern

Jul 2019 – Dec 2019 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Automated incident handling: Developed and deployed an SVM model achieving over 95% precision in tag identification from short text descriptions, integrated with a continuous retraining pipeline. Implemented a Drools rule engine to streamline issue-resolution tasks.

Python (Programming Language)Machine LearningData ScienceSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

National university of singapore

Academic Intern

May 2019 – Jun 2019 · 1 mo · Singapore · On-site

Architected and trained a neural network to predict emotion from audio samples with 70% accuracy using MFCC feature extraction.
Utilized RAVDESS Audio Dataset to enhance the neural network model for improved performance.
Awarded best project among 50 teams for innovative approach and successful implementation.

Deep LearningMachine LearningData ScienceResearch and Development (R&D)

Indira gandhi centre for atomic research (igcar)

Research Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Tamil Nadu, India

Conducted Raman spectroscopy and photo-luminescence measurements on Nitrogen doped poly-crystalline synthetic diamond.
Analyzed temperature dependant resistivity and photo-current studies to determine optical and electrical properties.

Experimental Physics