Nitin Joy
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNitin Joy is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable cloud and developer tooling at Microsoft, currently focused on AI agents for QA and previously ensuring reliability and performance for Azure Load Testing. He has deep hands-on expertise across C++, C#, and TypeScript and has contributed significant fixes and features to Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions, and Azure Functions UX. Nitin blends full-stack development with DevOps automation—authoring ARM templates, deployment scripts, and troubleshooting tooling for large Azure services—and has a track record of improving developer experiences in widely used Microsoft open-source repos. Before Microsoft he shipped games at Zynga and founded an AR-enabled retail startup, demonstrating a mix of product instincts and systems-level engineering. He’s recognized internally (Top Gun, Mountain Movers) and externally by active open-source contributions, reflecting both technical breadth and a bias for shipping reliable systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Malayalam, Hindi, English, Tamil
Stackoverflow
100reputation
35kreached
6answers
5questions
Github Skills (58)
azure-devops-server10
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
net10
azure-functions10
typescript10
dotnet10
regex10
ui-design10
functional-testing10
cicd10
azure-cli10
asp-net10
uid10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/nodejs-appsvc-cosmosdb-bottleneck
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nitin primarily focused on infrastructure setup and deployment scripts, with the initial commit establishing the project structure. Subsequent commits involved debugging and modifying the deployment script (`deploymentscript.ps1`), likely to resolve issues in the Azure deployment process, indicating proficiency with Azure CLI and PowerShell scripting. Further contributions involved backend code, specifically related to secret management and environmental configurations in `server.js`.
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:370 commits, 117 PRs, 260 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nitin primarily contributed to improving the Azure Pipelines tasks. Their work involved fixing error messages, updating task versions, and implementing features. The user's commits also focused on the deployment of Azure Resource Group and added functionalities to help with troubleshooting. The changes demonstrate expertise in Azure DevOps and related automation workflows.
azure-pipelines
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