Manish Garg
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManish Garg is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with over 10 years of experience building large-scale, real-time systems at Microsoft from Bing Ads and Office coauthoring to the Azure Fluid Relay service. He leads AFR—an internet-scale, Node.js/TypeScript and Kubernetes-based managed service spanning 20+ regions—bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, streaming platforms, and cloud services like Kafka, Redis, Cosmos DB, and Event Hubs. Previously he architected backend services for targeted campaigns, recommender systems, and real-time presence/typing features for collaborative applications, demonstrating a strong mix of ML-driven product work and low-latency infrastructure engineering. His career roots include leading development of the award-winning Msnbc.com publishing and feed systems, showing long-standing experience in content, publishing, and deployment platforms. Trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Roorkee, he pairs rigorous problem-solving instincts with hands-on software leadership. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who moves quickly from prototype to globally reliable production.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
English, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
fluid10
dotnet10
websocket10
realtime10
csharp10
microsoft10
collaboration10
crdt10
dotnet-core9
asp-net-core9
linux9
windows9
asp-net9
cross-platform8
fluid-framework8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
manishgargd/pipelines-java
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Sample Java application referred to by Azure Pipelines documentation
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
java-applicationazure-pipelinesazurepipelinesjava
microsoft/FluidFramework
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Library for building distributed, real-time collaborative web applications
Contributions:72 reviews, 42 comments in 2 years 2 months
datastructurerealtimereal-timeweb-applicationsfluid-framework
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