Nishat Islam
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNishat Islam is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building large-scale, customer-facing systems at Amazon, VMware, and Microsoft. He has progressed from SDE roles at Amazon to senior and principal engineering positions at VMware and Microsoft, demonstrating deep expertise in architecting distributed B2B and retail-integrated platforms. At Amazon he helped design software to onboard retailers and manage in-store Kindle experiences, and later roles show a focus on scalable platform and infrastructure engineering. Nishat blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, mentoring teams through complexity and long-term product roadmaps. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Rutgers and is known for anticipating problems several quarters—or even years—ahead, helping organizations build durable systems. Outside core duties he brings a retailer-to-cloud perspective that helps bridge business requirements with resilient technical solutions.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (2)
photon4
controller4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
vmware-archive/photon-controller-cli
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:10 commits in 2 months
vmware-archive/photon-controller-go-sdk
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
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