Prabir Shrestha
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarPrabir Shrestha is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 16 years of experience leading backend and platform engineering efforts and advancing developer tooling. He progressed through senior engineering and management roles at Microsoft since 2014, combining hands-on coding with team leadership to ship robust, tested systems at scale. An active open-source contributor, Prabir has added core operators to RxJava and enhanced widely used SDKs and libraries—such as Facebook SDKs and a .NET JSON serializer—demonstrating depth across JVM, .NET, and Node ecosystems. He brings strong testing and CI/DevOps sensibilities (including language-server automation for vim-lsp), favoring pragmatic refactors and cross-platform compatibility. Based in Washington, Prabir pairs architectural judgment with practical implementation, mentoring teams to deliver reliable, well-tested integrations.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (47)
unit-testing10
json10
javascript10
facebook-sdk10
apidoc10
rxjavafx10
testing10
net10
facebook-graph-api10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
vim10
asp-net10
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
facebook-csharp-sdk/simple-json
Mar 2011 - Mar 2014
JSON library for .NET 2.0+/SL4+/WP7/WindowsStore with optional support for dynamic and DataContract
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:228 commits, 8 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Prabir primarily contributed to the SimpleJson library by implementing new features, including support for serializing classes, anonymous types, and data types like Guid and DateTime. The commits show a focus on expanding the library's capabilities to handle a wider range of .NET data types, and data structures. Further contributions involve refactoring the code, such as renaming files and updating the build configurations to support various .NET versions and platforms.
dotnetjson-libraryc-sharpcsharpjson
facebook-csharp-sdk/facebook-csharp-sdk
Nov 2010 - Nov 2021
Facebook SDK for .NET
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1230 commits, 16 PRs, 13 pushes in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Prabir implemented tests for Facebook client upload data. They added a new test case and corresponding files to cover the scenarios for posting data using the Facebook client, including aspects such as checking for specific error messages, header, and content type. The changes involved the modification and creation of C# test files, along with the adaptation of supporting infrastructure such as client mocks.
dotnetsdkfacebookfacebook-apifacebook-graph-api
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