Chetan Bansal
Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChetan Bansal is a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience building research-driven, production-grade software across cloud, web, and mobile platforms. He leads teams that apply data-driven techniques and AI to improve cloud efficiency and reliability, blending deep engineering with research rigor from his long tenure at Microsoft Research and MSR AI. Proficient across C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and full-stack frameworks, he has shipped systems from backend services and distributed systems to polished HTML5/Bootstrap UIs and cross-platform mobile apps. His background in formal verification and security research (including work with Inria and OAuth2 analysis) gives him a rare combination of systems engineering and security-first thinking. He also brings practical startup and open-collaboration experience—having led freelance product builds and contributed tooling at Google early in his career—helping bridge prototypes into production. Based in Seattle, he pairs academic-style verification skills with hands-on delivery at cloud scale.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Github Skills (6)
middleware6
nodejs5
bearer-token4
code-search2
outlook1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mysociety/node-connect-image-proxy
May 2012 - Jul 2012
A Node.js Connect middleware for proxing (and manipulating) images.
Contributions:24 commits in 1 month
middlewarenodejs
microsoft/Search4Code
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Web queries dataset for code search
Contributions:3 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 month
code-search
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