Nikhil Kumar
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Kumar is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with 17 years of professional experience and over a decade in the Microsoft ecosystem, currently leading intelligence efforts for Microsoft Search, Assistant & Intelligence to deliver NLP and ML-driven features across Outlook, Teams, Bing and Windows. He specializes in building planet-scale microservices and data platforms that process billions of documents and emails daily, with deep experience in distributed systems, knowledge mining, big data analytics, privacy and compliance. A hands-on engineering leader, he has driven major migrations from on-premises Team Foundation Server to Azure DevOps and built telemetry and dev-analytics platforms that improved developer productivity. Known for exceptional organizational discipline and multitasking across complex programs, he balances technical rigor with mentorship and team growth. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs rapid technology adoption with a track record of shipping robust, customer-focused services at Microsoft scale. An oft-overlooked strength is his early work on device firmware update systems and low-level log-mining engines, which underpin his pragmatic approach to resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Science, B.Tech, Computer Science at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology
Github Skills (8)
windows10
azure-pipelines10
azure10
azure-devops10
cicd10
arm-templates9
arm9
bicep8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
NikhilRanjanKumar/azure-quickstart-templates
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 days
azure
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Contributions:41 PRs, 50 pushes, 27 branches in 4 months
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
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