Navin Neroth
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNavin Neroth is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of professional experience building sync, notifications, and test automation systems at Microsoft, currently focusing on Notifications/Invalidations for Microsoft Edge Browser Sync. He brings a strong systems and QA mindset from earlier roles on the Internet Explorer DOM team and the Connected Car program, blending client and server work to ensure reliable cross-device state. Navin has contributed to high-profile open-source Microsoft projects such as Azure Pipelines and vstest, improving test result publishing, multi-threaded attachment handling, and performance tracing—skills that reveal a knack for digging into tooling and CI reliability. His background spans embedded and financial systems to cloud-native CI tooling, reflecting an unusual mix of low-level engineering and DevOps-driven automation.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Model Engineering CollegeMasters, Information Systems, Masters, Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (22)
testing10
net10
nunit10
test-framework10
cicd10
performance-testing10
asp-net10
junit10
dotnet-core10
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
csharp10
test-automation10
dotnet9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 13 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Navin primarily focuses on enhancing the testing capabilities of the Azure Pipelines Agent. They've made modifications to test result readers for various formats, including NUnit and JUnit, adding features such as reading attachments and handling owner attributes. Several commits involve refactoring existing tests and adding new test cases, particularly focused on validating how test results are published and handled within the pipeline. The user has also addressed issues like duplicate attachment uploads in a multi-threaded environment.
azure-pipelines-agentazure-pipelinesagentazurepipelines
microsoft/vstest
Aug 2016 - Dec 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:20 commits, 26 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Navin contributed significantly to the test platform, implementing and enhancing performance tests. They focused on instrumenting the test platform with event-based tracing and automation using the Microsoft.Diagnostics.Tracing.TraceEvent API. This involved creating a performance test base, developing sample performance tests, and integrating them into the build process, as well as improvements and refactoring of existing tests. Further enhancements include adding assembly resolvers to team foundation.
visual-studiodotnetconsoletest-platformtesting
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