Sayan Chaliha
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSayan Chaliha is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with a 16-year track record of inventing and shipping new systems across major tech companies. He has led engineering efforts at Microsoft after progressive senior roles at Amazon and AWS, bringing deep experience in large-scale cloud services, mobile/voice platforms, and distributed systems. Known for moving between hands-on implementation and architectural leadership, he’s comfortable mentoring teams while still diving into code to solve hard problems. His background spans startups to hyperscalers, reflecting a knack for turning ambiguous requirements into production-grade software. An engineer by training from Acharya Institute of Technology, he blends long-term product vision with operational rigor—often surfacing practical innovations that weren’t obvious at the outset.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor - Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor - Engineering Computer Science at Acharya Institute of Technology10 +2 Computer Science, 10 +2 Computer Science at The Assam Valley School
Assamese, Hindi
Github Skills (52)
uwp10
msix10
sdk10
dispatchqueue9
kotlin9
linux9
spring-session9
spring-boot8
android8
java8
square8
mutex8
aws-ses7
pool7
aws-java-sdk7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sayan-chaliha/cyan
Jul 2020 - Feb 2022
A lock-free, wait-free, event-driven, cross-platform, thread pool-backed asynchronous execution library in C++.
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
waitmultithreadinglockmulti-threadinglibev
sayan-chaliha/msix-packaging-builds
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
MSIX SDK
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
linuxmsixsdk
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