Nithin Madhavanpillai
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNithin Madhavanpillai is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of experience building resilient, cloud-native distributed systems and big data pipelines, currently focused on validating and trending AI-driven Teams capabilities at Microsoft. He has deep hands-on expertise with Apache Flink, Spark, Kafka, Zipkin-based distributed tracing, Kubernetes, and AWS services, and has architected production ingestion and tracing platforms for large enterprises. Nithin combines domain knowledge in point-of-sale/payment terminal integrations and event-sourced, CQRS-style systems with pragmatic operational tooling—Helm automation, savepoint-driven Flink job management, and custom logging/ELK pipelines. He has contributed to notable open-source work, including enhancements to Microsoft Azure PowerShell receivers and Zipkin, reflecting a habit of improving ecosystem tooling beyond his teams. Colleagues rely on him for designing testable, decoupled components and automating reliable deployments across cloud and on-premise landscapes. Technically curious and detail-oriented, he often bridges low-level infrastructure (Cassandra, Flink orchestration) with product-facing reliability needs.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Madras Institute Of Technology
Github Skills (12)
arm10
powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
webhooks9
unit-testing9
azure-automation8
dotnet-core8
csharp8
apidoc7
testing7
api7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 days
Contributions summary:Nithin primarily contributed to the Azure PowerShell module, focusing on new receiver implementations within action groups. They added and modified code related to various receiver types, including email, SMS, webhook, ITSM, voice, ARM role, Azure function, logic app, and automation runbook receivers. These changes involved adding new parameters, setting default values, and updating existing code to ensure correct functionality and testing. The user also made modifications to the test suite, adding and updating unit tests to validate the new receiver implementations and test cases.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
KevinMarquette/reference-architectures
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
templates and scripts for deploying Azure Reference Architectures
Contributions:42 commits in 2 months
architecturesdeployinginfrastructure-as-codeazurearchitecture
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