Riya Simon
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiya Simon is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience, currently at Microsoft in the Greater Seattle area. She holds a Master’s from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BS from the University of Virginia, blending strong academic foundations with enterprise engineering. Over nearly a decade she has moved through complex product and platform work, bringing pragmatic problem-solving to large-scale systems. Colleagues describe her as steady under pressure and effective at translating research-level concepts from graduate studies into production-quality software. Though early in her Microsoft tenure, she’s known for quickly integrating into cross-functional teams and driving measurable improvements in reliability and developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Master's degree at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Virginia
Github Skills (8)
azure10
rest-api10
swagger10
api10
rest10
openapi10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
riyasimon23/azure-rest-api-specs
Feb 2022 - Oct 2023
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:48 pushes, 12 branches, 7 tags in 1 year 8 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
rps2ff23/CourseProject
Oct 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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