Nishad Dawkhar
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNishad Dawkhar is a Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems for large tech teams, currently contributing to Azure Edge + Platform at Microsoft. He previously spent three years at Twitter designing Kafka-focused infrastructure—building a lag monitoring service and broker-level rate limiting—and has deep hands-on expertise in Scala, Kafka, and large-scale metadata services. His background spans cloud-native microservices (Java Spring, Docker), real-time streaming (Spark, Storm), and production-grade tooling for RBAC and config validation. Nishad holds an MS in Intelligent Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon, pairing machine learning knowledge with systems engineering. He’s experienced in incident post-mortems and mentoring, and has a pattern of turning research-level ideas into operational services that restore state from durable stores. Based in Bengaluru, he combines rigorous academic training with practical delivery across Azure, Twitter, Cisco, and earlier AI-infra and endpoint security platforms.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyMaster of Science - MS Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS) School of Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Intelligent Information Systems (MIIS) School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (12)
xapian9
command-line-interface6
azure6
cli6
azure-cli4
command-line4
sorting3
python2
pdf2
data-structures1
cpp1
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nishad94/UoP-Result-Data-Analayzer
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 2 days
pythonpdfpunesortinganalyzes
Nishad94/Grad-Cafe-Result-Monitor
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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