Khilan Goel
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKhilan Goel is a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and leading production-scale services at Microsoft and GitHub. He specializes in back-end scalability using C#, Node.js, SQL and Azure, paired with React/TypeScript front-end work and strong DevOps/CI-CD rigor. At GitHub he helped onboard major products like Copilot and Deployment into a unified Insights platform, and at Microsoft he’s driving sovereign cloud onboarding for hyperscale Azure. Khilan is an active contributor to high-profile testing projects such as Microsoft/vstest and testfx, where he strengthened test suites and improved test reliability—reflecting a practical focus on test-driven quality. He blends hands-on implementation with E2E ownership of design, capacity planning and live-site operations, and consistently looks for architecture changes that cut delivery time while preserving multi-tenancy, compliance and scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
Punjabi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (16)
unit-testing10
test-runner10
test-framework10
dotnet10
dotnet-new10
csharp10
mstest10
unit-test10
dotnet-core10
testing10
test-automation9
netcore8
teste8
ui-testing8
visual-studio7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vstest
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Visual Studio Test Platform is the runner and engine that powers test explorer and vstest.console.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 33 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Khilan primarily contributed to the test suite of the `vstest` repository, adding and modifying tests. They introduced new interfaces and modified existing test files, demonstrating a strong understanding of the testing framework and the codebase. Their work involved fixing tests, incorporating PR feedback, and making minor adjustments, focusing on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the testing platform.
visual-studiodotnetconsoletest-platformtesting
microsoft/testfx
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
This repository holds the source code of Microsoft.Testing.Platform (MTP), a lightweight alternative to VSTest, as well as MSTest adapter and framework.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 6 commits, 14 PRs in 23 days
Contributions summary:Khilan primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the testing infrastructure for the Microsoft.Testing.Platform project. They addressed issues related to deployment item attributes, unit test failures on local machines, and incorrect fetching of pdb files. The user also modified the test script to use dotnet vstest for running .NET Core tests and added exception handling to the test script, indicating an effort to enhance the robustness of the testing process. Their contributions focused on ensuring the reliability and correctness of the testing framework.
mstest-frameworkdotnetmstestv2test-frameworktest-runner
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