Chandrasekar Srinivasan
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChandrasekar Srinivasan is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Bellevue with seven years of professional experience leading delivery and engineering teams at Microsoft after earlier roles at Qualcomm. He blends hands-on C++ backend development—contributing telemetry features to the high-profile microsoft/WindowsAppSDK project—with leadership training from Oxford Saïd in Perspectives on Leadership. Known for moving low-level telemetry code toward cleaner, header-based architectures and improving build/resource automation, he pairs systems-thinking with pragmatic refactoring to improve product observability. His background includes deep firmware and systems experience from Qualcomm and an early research stint at TIFR, giving him a strong foundation in both applied research and production engineering. Colleagues rely on him to bridge engineering execution and strategic product needs while mentoring teams to ship robust desktop platform features.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster's degree, Master's degree at University of California, BerkeleyPerspectives on Leadership, Perspectives on Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, English
Github Skills (6)
windows10
winui10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
resource-management10
telemetry10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
May 2021 - Sep 2021
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 13 commits, 30 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Chandrasekar primarily focused on adding telemetry features to the Windows App SDK. They developed a resource project for telemetry data, including generating resource files and implementing functions to load and expose telemetry information. Furthermore, the user refactored and updated telemetry code to use a header-based approach, moving away from a static library, and also addressed code style issues. This work involved creating and modifying C++ code, resource files, and build scripts related to telemetry.
desktop-appswindows-10windows-11windows-app-sdkwindows-app
ZenBird-zz/ProjectReunion
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Project Reunion is an evolution of the Windows developer platform that will make it more compatible, agile, modern and open.
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year
hacklangevolutionmicrosoft-storewindows-servicewindows-10
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