Janak Jishnu
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolJanak Jishnu is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Sunnyvale with deep hands-on expertise in low-level systems and storage protocols, spanning NVMe, PCIe, SCSI/iSCSI and Fibre Channel across Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. He has over a decade of C/C++ development experience and a proven track record of taking requirements into product roadmaps, leading cross-functional teams from simulation and pre-silicon bring-up to production software. At Microsoft he focuses on AI SoC pre-silicon libraries, simulation and image/video processing, building on prior work at Amazon (Alexa SDK), NetApp (NVMe/driver stacks) and large-scale storage firms. Janak blends technical depth—assembly, kernel drivers, debugging with gdb—and product intuition honed by earlier technical marketing and MBA studies, enabling him to translate complex hardware-software interactions into shipping features. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions in high-throughput and high-reliability systems, and he often bridges firmware, drivers and application layers in performance-critical projects.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Tech Management and Marketing, MBA Tech Management and Marketing at University of Colorado Colorado SpringsMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Shivaji University
Github Skills (7)
alexa-voice-service10
integrate10
sdk9
connected9
device-management8
makers8
commercial7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
alexa/avs-device-sdk
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
An SDK for commercial device makers to integrate Alexa directly into connected products.
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 month
connected-productsmakersdevice-managementsdkconnected
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