Nayan Shah
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNayan Shah is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, who focuses on improving developer workflows and build systems using C#, Python, and JavaScript. He combines deep systems-thinking with practical DevOps improvements—evidenced by contributions to Microsoft’s popular rushstack monorepo where he modernized Node.js build support and added tooling to streamline BuildXL module generation and cleanup. A perpetual learner with an MTech from IIT (BHU) Varanasi, Nayan excels at making complex build and back-end environments more reliable and easier for teams to use. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, behind-the-scenes engineering that reduces friction in large-scale developer ecosystems.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Technology - MTech, Master of Technology - MTech at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (18)
typescript10
build-system10
rush10
dx10
typescript-types10
monorepo10
nodejs10
typescripts10
devops10
api9
kql6
app-insights6
gwt-rpc6
fedora6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/rushstack
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Monorepo for tools developed by the Rush Stack community
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 7 PRs, 19 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Nayan primarily focused on improving the build and development environment for the Rush Stack tools. Their work included introducing an environment variable to allow building with newer Node.js versions, updating related configuration files, and switching the environment variable to a more descriptive name. Furthermore, the user implemented a new command to clean up generated BuildXL modules and added a feature to generate BuildXL module skeletons under the `common/temp/bxl` directory. These changes enhance the build process and developer experience within the project.
apimonorepoeslintapi-extractororchestrator
nayanshah/rushstack
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
A tool box for large scale web development
Contributions:38 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
boxscalelarge-scalenodejsweb-scale
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