Adit Dalvi
Principal Software Engineer - Microsoft Defender For APIs
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdit Dalvi is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft with over a decade of experience building resilient, large-scale cloud services for real-time communications and API security. He leads backend engineering for Microsoft Defender for APIs, delivering full lifecycle protection, real-time detection, and sensitive-data insights for customers' APIs. Previously he drove Teams and Skype backend features—improving availability, reducing call setup and join latency, and enabling interoperability across platforms and regulated markets. He combines systems-level engineering (custom transports, idempotency, aggressive retries) with product-focused security work, translating complex reliability and threat scenarios into production-ready services. Educated at UC Berkeley and the University of Washington, he is Seattle-based and known for tackling hard distributed-systems problems that sit at the intersection of communications and security. An understated through-line in his career is turning protocol and infrastructure research into pragmatic, operational services used by millions.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science & Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science & Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (28)
microsoft10
command-line-interface10
openxml10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
skype10
api10
rest10
command-line10
powershell10
azure10
rest-api10
microsoft-teams10
openapi10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aditdalvi/beyla
Mar 2024 - Apr 2024
eBPF-based autoinstrumentation of HTTP and HTTPS services
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 28 days
aditdalvi/azure-cli
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Azure Command-Line Interface
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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