Nithya Ganesh
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNithya Ganesh is a Senior Software Engineer with over six years of experience building and scaling consumer-grade Android and enterprise software, currently at Microsoft. She brings deep full-stack expertise across Java/J2EE, Android, C/C++, and a wide range of databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, SQLite, Hibernate) and has a track record of refactoring complex APIs into maintainable REST services. At EMC she led feature design, created testing and performance tools (including an AspectJ/SQLite benchmarking tool), and mentored distributed engineering teams while handling customer escalations. Her early research work at the University of Kentucky produced a Lucene-based search engine and document-clustering visualizations, reflecting a strong grounding in information retrieval. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, she has routinely improved product usability and developer productivity through tooling and mock frameworks. Based in Cary, NC, she combines systems-level programming (multithreading, sockets) with hands-on product delivery across cloud and storage domains.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AV Meiyappan Mat. Hr. Sec. SchoolMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of KentuckyBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Github Skills (4)
verifiable-credentials10
android8
ios7
crypto2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/entra-verifiedid-wallet-library-android
Mar 2023 - Jan 2025
A library to manage your Decentralized Identities and Verified IDs on Android.
Contributions:2 releases, 167 reviews, 144 PRs in 1 year 10 months
android
microsoft/VerifiableCredential-SDK-Android
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
An SDK to manage your Decentralized Identities and Verifiable Credentials.
Contributions:183 reviews, 709 commits, 199 PRs in 2 years 11 months
verifiable-credentials
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