Nitin Gupta
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNitin Gupta is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of focused experience building reliable configuration, policy, and VM-extension infrastructure for cloud and hybrid environments. He has led the Arc ESU initiative and teams delivering Policy and VM extension frameworks for Arc for Servers and Azure Guest Configuration, blending systems design with cross-discipline coordination. Earlier work includes owning Desired State Configuration (DSC) engineering—designing the Local Configuration Manager, pull protocol, resource model, and porting DSC to Linux—demonstrating depth in configuration management and cross-platform reliability. Nitin’s long tenure at Microsoft reflects a pragmatic balance of hands-on engineering and technical leadership, rooted in a BTech from IIIT Hyderabad. A less obvious strength is his track record of tackling low-level platform reliability issues (WMI repository fixes and PowerShell integration) that quietly enabled higher-level cloud features.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information Technology at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Github Skills (50)
hyper-v10
microsoft10
windows10
linux10
openxml10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
documentation-generator10
api10
rest10
command-line10
netcore10
powershell10
azure10
macos10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nitinbps/HelloWorld
Nov 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
nitinbps/ArcforServerSamples
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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