Maheshwari, an Indian American, was born in Mystic, Connecticut.
She covered e-commerce and retail for BuzzFeed from 2013 to 2016,[2] prior to which she had worked for Bloomberg Businessweek.
In 2015, Maheshwari won a Front Page Award for her article "Making Victoria's Secret Pay For Keeping Staff On Call".
[3] At the same year she won "Investigative, Division 2" award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for her article "The Dark, Scammy History of JustFab and Fabletics".
[4][5] In 2016, she joined The New York Times as its business reporter.