Nilkamal Adak
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNilkamal Adak is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over a decade of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems and shaping software architecture. He has a proven track record of solving complex problems and delivering high-impact, high-quality solutions across .NET-based platforms while fostering effective cross-functional collaboration. At Microsoft he progressed from software engineer to manager, blending deep technical ownership with people leadership and delivery accountability. His open-source contributions to the widely used azure-pipelines-tasks repository show practical DevOps expertise—improving automation, error handling, and parallel execution for real-world CI/CD workloads. Trained with an MTech in Computer Science from IIT Madras, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic engineering and a knack for optimizing resource management in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasWest Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
Github Skills (10)
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
automation10
azure10
automations10
microsoft-azure10
devops10
cicd10
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Feb 2015 - Jan 2020
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:237 commits, 145 PRs, 207 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nilkamal primarily modified tasks and scripts related to Azure Pipelines, indicating a focus on DevOps practices. Their commits addressed issues, improved error handling, and made the tasks more adaptable for parallel execution. They also implemented tag-based filtering for tasks like Azure File Copy and Windows File Copy, contributing to improved resource management and automation.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
niadak/vsts-image-generation
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Collection of scripts used in generating the various VSTS Hosted CI/CD Images
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 7 months
hostedvstsci-cd
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