# Inchara Shivalingaiah

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/inchara

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Present | Seattle, WA
Agentic workflows within Privacy Infrastructure

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
1)  Senior Developer on the AWS Alexa for Business  team - Launched Enterprise contact calling and Zoom conferencing on echo show devices 
2) Developed Alexa Calling with Phone numbers
3) Worked in AWS Storage gateway team to launch File Storage gateway, AWS Elastic file system and features related to it

### Software Development Engineer 2 @ Microsoft
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, Washington
- Shipped the V1 product of PowerShell Desired State Configuration(PSDSC). PSDSC is a Windows Server feature that allows a PowerShell script to specify the configuration of the machine using a declarative model in a simple standard way that is easy to maintain and understand. 
- Launched Azure Authentication Evolved Token System team which involved creating a basic structure for authenticating the identity on the Microsoft cloud.

### Graduate Student Researcher @ UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles
Appointed as a graduate student researcher to help launch a child development website for the UCLA Psychology Department. This involved end to end development of a website with a database controlled computer adaptive questionnaire of child assessment for the Psychology Department, with Dr. Peter Bentler in UCLA

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Redmond
Intern in the PowerShell team in Windows Server, Tools and Business division.

### Software Developer @ IBM India Software Labs
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Bangalore, India
Team : IBM Software Group, Messaging in Websphere Application Integration Middleware
• Websphere Message Queuing (MQ) using .Net , Test Development in Message oriented Middle-ware technologies
for the IBM Websphere MQ version 7.1 - named Dreadnought for the following features (a) Distributed Transactions recovery and handling and (b) Client Auto Reconnect for reconnection on network failures to ensure high server availability (c) Programmable Command Formats, administer server commands from the client.
• Published a paper on Efficient Testing Based on Areas of Code Change in IBM Asia Pacific Quality Software Engineering Symposium (Sep 2010)
• Analyzed and fixed product defects in the source code of Websphere MQ .NET Client.
• Developed widely used Automation Frameworks using .NET reflections and Perl.
• Helped improve performance by calculating and analyzing Code Coverage of the Websphere XMS .NET Client.
• Recognized as a top performer for contribution in product delivery, innovation and collaboration (2009-2010)


Activities :
--> Winner of Women's inter-corporate chess tournament 2011
--> Winner of IBM Global Hackday contest in IBM - 2009
--> Organized various events in IBM from 2009-2010.

### Intern @ IBM Software Group
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Bangalore
Team : Java Technology Center, IBM Software Group.
• Programmed a prototype in C for synchronization of concurrent access to the shared cache across JVMs running on different z/OS Linux guests using DisContiguous Shared Segments(DCSS). This design improved the degree of virtualization by handling deadlocks.


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/incharashivalingaiah
- Portfolio: https://sites.google.com/site/incharas/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12