Nithish Mahalingam
Partner Director Of Engineering at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNithish Mahalingam is a Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft with over a decade of hands-on experience building low-level systems, runtime virtualization, and cloud-scale machine learning solutions to optimize power efficiency and sustainability for Azure. He founded and scaled the organization responsible for software-driven energy and carbon reduction across Azure Compute, blending kernel, firmware, and ML expertise to deliver measurable operational and environmental impact. His earlier work spans Hyper-V, Windows Phone UEFI and power management, and cross-platform runtime translation (WinObjC), demonstrating a rare mix of firmware-to-cloud breadth. A proven inventor and open-source contributor, he has driven prototypes that became shipped products (e.g., the Android emulator in Visual Studio) and contributed foundational Objective-C support for Windows. Based in Redmond, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with senior leadership in building teams that turn complex systems challenges into production-grade, green computing solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at College of Engineering, Guindy
Github Skills (9)
objective-c10
ws-api10
winapi10
foundation-sites10
wp-api10
foundation10
corefoundation9
corelocation8
nsl7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/WinObjC
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 46 PRs, 31 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nithish primarily contributed to the Objective-C implementation for Windows, focusing on the Foundation framework. Their work included implementing the NSCountedSet collection and adding support for NSAssertionHandler. They also established basic CoreLocation support, enabling start/stopUpdatingLocation functions, and added improvements to NSBundle and NSURL.
objective-cwindows
mnithish/WinObjC
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:49 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
objective-cwindows
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