Summary
Nisarg Shah is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale backend systems, currently at Meta after a multi-year tenure at Microsoft where he advanced Teams and Extensions platform reliability and performance. He has led architecture and migration efforts—moving monolithic services to scalable microservices on Azure, improving availability to 99.99%, and slashing app discovery and call wait times from hours/200+ seconds to minutes/30 seconds respectively. Nisarg combines hands-on backend development (C#, Azure, REST APIs, Pub/Sub patterns, Cosmos DB) with cross-team coordination to onboard major P0 clients like Outlook and Office and to support millions of daily users. Early work spans ML and research internships (Adobe, ITRI) applying deep learning and reinforcement-learning techniques, giving him a strong foundation in applied research and productionization. Based in Redmond and trained at IIT Kharagpur, he has a track record of turning complex distributed challenges into reliable, performant services that scale.
10 years of coding experience