Nishant Patel
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarNishant Patel is a software engineer at Microsoft based in Seattle with four years of experience focused on automation, CI/CD, and DevOps for large open-source projects. At Microsoft he has driven improvements to release pipelines and end-to-end test automation, notably contributing to the widely used Azure IoT Edge repository by automating package publishing and support-bundle uploads. He blends engineering rigor with practical release-ops experience, enabling smoother test enablement (including .NET 6 and specific IoT Edge checks) across complex pipelines. Comfortable working across project boundaries, he acts like a software architect in practice, optimizing build and delivery workflows to reduce manual overhead. Nishant’s background shows a preference for production-facing automation that accelerates shipping and improves test coverage. Colleagues can expect a hands-on engineer who thinks in terms of scalable CI/CD systems rather than single-feature prototypes.
5 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
azure-pipelines10
sh10
automations10
shell10
testing9
githubaction-workflow8
github-ci8
net7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:340 reviews, 85 commits, 130 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nishant primarily contributed to the improvement and automation of the CI/CD pipelines for the `azure/iotedge` repository. Their commits focused on publishing release packages, automating the build process, and integrating support bundle uploads into the E2E test pipelines. They also worked on enabling specific tests within the CI, such as the IoT Edge Check test and incorporating .NET 6, demonstrating a focus on improving testing and release workflows.
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nimanch/iotedge
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
The IoT Edge OSS project
Contributions:2 PRs, 559 pushes, 111 branches in 8 months
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