Nilay Chheda
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNilay Chheda is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native distributed systems, applied ML/NLP, mobile and embedded drivers, and full-stack products at Microsoft and Qualcomm. At Microsoft he leads efforts on Azure Support AI, architecting resilient, low-latency platforms that help millions of Azure customers and automate support via ML-driven diagnostics. His background spans research and production—developing RESTful services, linking open data at USC/ISI, and optimizing Windows audio drivers and CI tooling at Qualcomm—so he moves comfortably between prototypes and production-grade systems. An aspiring leader and mentor, he has guided students and early-career engineers while holding executive roles in student organizations and community conferences. Beyond engineering, Nilay speaks five languages, plays piano, and brings a curious, user-focused mindset that blends academic rigor with pragmatic product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science with Data Science specialization, 3.5 / 4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science with Data Science specialization, 3.5 / 4.0 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor’s Degree, B.Tech (Computer Science Major), 8.50 / 10.00, Bachelor’s Degree, B.Tech (Computer Science Major), 8.50 / 10.00 at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
kutchhi, Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, English
Github Skills (151)
swagger10
azure-cli10
rest-api10
openapi10
api10
rest10
azure10
cli10
extraction10
apache-tika9
microsoft-cognitive-services9
sdk9
swagger-ui9
command-line-interface9
python9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
karishma-sureka/museum_link_curation
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:37 commits, 32 pushes in 7 months
usc-isi-i2/museum-link-curation
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:92 pushes in 6 months
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