---
title: "Tisha Chawla"
category: "people"
role: "Software Engineer"
company: "Microsoft"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/tisha-chawla"
website: "https://dev.to/tisha"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Tisha Chawla

## Profile
Software Engineer at [[microsoft|Microsoft]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tisha-chawla)
- [Website](https://dev.to/tisha)

## Biography
Tisha Chawla is a Software Engineer at [[microsoft|Microsoft]], where she builds production-grade agentic systems designed to perform reliably against real enterprise data. Moving past isolated AI demos, her work targets the core infrastructure of agent engineering: durable state management, deterministic execution, and self-healing workflows that recover without manual intervention.
As an architect rather than a consumer of AI, Tisha designs the orchestration layers that allow coding agents, reliability agents, and spec-driven development workflows to scale. She is a published applied machine learning researcher and regularly delivers deep-dive technical sessions on deploying resilient, enterprise-scale AI architecture.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-tisha-chawla-finops-for-ai-agents-who-spent-all-the-tokens]] — FinOps for AI Agents: Who Spent All the Tokens? (2026-07-01, 11:10am-11:30am)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-tisha-chawla-finops-for-ai-agents-who-spent-all-the-tokens|FinOps for AI Agents: Who Spent All the Tokens?]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY` — 9 slide-derived text signals
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY`: determinism, batch, system, depends, never, record, replay, network.
- Evidence links for `youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY`: [[youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY]], [[youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY-slides]], [[youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY-dense-slides]], [[youtube-Lc8zRh9muoY-reconstructed-slides]]