Neil Barkhina
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Barkhina is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with eight years of professional experience and a background stretching back to enterprise application work in .NET, SharePoint, and SQL Server. Currently on the Power BI team at Microsoft, he focuses on PBIP file format, Direct Lake, Remote Modeling and developer tooling, bringing both product-facing and platform-level expertise. He is a full-stack developer fluent in C# and JavaScript who has shipped UI and backend improvements for a web-based N64 emulator, adding cloud save support, mobile controls and robust zip error handling. Neil combines hands-on feature delivery with system design and has moved between senior engineering and architect roles across startups and large banks, showing comfort in regulated and high-scale environments. His career shows a consistent pattern of improving developer experiences and operationalizing file and data workflows. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and unusually attentive to cross-platform user flows.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stuyvesant High SchoolBS, Information Systems, BS, Information Systems at Stony Brook University
Russian, English
Github Skills (12)
64-bit10
javascript10
emulation10
webassembly9
html9
indexeddb8
file-access7
mobile-development7
fileio7
file-handling7
file-processing7
sql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nbarkhina/N64Wasm
Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
A web based N64 Emulator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and adding features to the N64 emulator. They implemented a "Load State" button, updated the HTML meta tags, and added error handling for zip files. Furthermore, the user incorporated server support for cloud saves, import/export functionality for save files, and mobile control features. These improvements indicate a focus on both front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
emulatorn64webassembly
nbarkhina/MarioCompiler
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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