Rahul Nishant
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRahul Nishant is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redmond with 14 years of professional experience and a strong academic foundation (M.Tech, IIT Delhi). He has built and shipped cloud-scale tooling and automation at Microsoft, including Azure PowerShell tests for SQL Virtual Machines and an Azure Resource Provider for SQL licensing, blending backend C#/.NET work with PowerShell automation. Previously he led build and platform efforts at MathWorks—improving build performance by ~30%—and delivered full-stack features and critical bug fixes at Epic, demonstrating both systems-level and product-facing impact. Rahul is comfortable owning end-to-end projects, from design and implementation to monitoring and regional automation for cloud rollout. He pairs deep tooling and CI/build expertise with hands-on test automation for a major open-source Microsoft repo, showing a knack for making large codebases safer and more deployable. Colleagues would note his mix of pragmatic engineering, cross-team collaboration, and history of solo-project delivery.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, 76.2, B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, 76.2 at College of Engineering, ChengannurM.TECH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Computer science and engineering, 8.34, M.TECH IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Computer science and engineering, 8.34 at IIT Delhi
Github Skills (7)
powershell10
azure-powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
testing10
sql-server9
arm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 50 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily worked on the test suite for the Azure PowerShell module, specifically focusing on the SqlVirtualMachine module. Their contributions involved writing and modifying scenario tests for SQL virtual machines and SQL virtual machine groups. They added tests to validate the functionality of creating, getting, updating, and removing SQL virtual machines and groups, including adjustments to ensure tests run sequentially. They also updated tag properties.
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ranishan/azure-powershell
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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