Nilay Shah
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNilay Shah is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Redmond with over a decade of experience architecting cloud-first solutions and leading cross-functional teams at Microsoft. He combines deep technical hands-on experience—from contributing Bicep templates to the widely used Azure Quickstart Templates repo for data protection and recovery—with strategic product and people leadership that aligns engineering outcomes to business goals. A mentor and talent developer, he emphasizes inclusive teams, continuous improvement, and pragmatic adoption of emerging technologies. His background blends advanced technical degrees (M.Tech, B.E.) with executive business training from IIM Calcutta, enabling him to bridge engineering execution with business strategy.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.E., B.E. at Gujarat UniversityM.Tech, M.Tech at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, IndiaExecutive Program in Global Business Management, Executive Program in Global Business Management at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
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Github Skills (26)
bicep10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
html-template10
python-templates10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
arm-templates10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
azure10
cpp-templates10
data-protection9
azure-resource-manager9
resource-manager9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Oct 2015 - Nov 2021
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 115 commits, 46 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nilay primarily contributed Bicep templates for various Azure data protection and recovery services, including disk backup, storage blob protection, and Recovery Services vault creation. Their work involved setting up resources, configuring policies, and managing access controls within the Azure environment. They also addressed build fixes, metadata updates, and cleaned up the generated code.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
nilaydshah/azure-quickstart-templates
Oct 2015 - May 2024
Azure Quickstart Templates
Contributions:35 PRs, 109 pushes, 28 branches in 8 years 8 months
arm-templatestemplatesazure
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