Smitha Borkar
Software Engineer III at GitHub
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSmitha Borkar is a Software Engineer III with 11 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing features at GitHub and Microsoft, currently contributing to GitHub Pages. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Syracuse University and has a broad systems background spanning C/C++, C#, Java, Matlab and macOS frameworks, with early work porting games to Mac and building WPF medical device UIs. At Microsoft she contributed to Notification Hubs and App Center SDKs, implementing secure token caching and robust SDK models and tests, and has hands-on experience authoring scenario tests and PowerShell automation for Azure. Comfortable across Windows, Linux and macOS, she blends research experience in barcode recognition with production-grade cloud SDK and tooling work—bringing both algorithmic rigor and practical security-minded engineering to developer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at NMAM Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Syracuse UniversityHigh School, High School at Little Rock Indian School
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Github Skills (22)
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
azure-sdk10
testing10
key-management10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
keychain10
powershell10
azure10
nodejs10
csharp10
test-automation10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Smitha primarily contributed to the `src/ResourceManagement/NotificationHubs/Microsoft.Azure.Management.NotificationHubs/Generated/NamespacesOperations.cs` file, which is related to the Azure SDK for .NET. The commits involve changes based on swagger files and incorporation of comments and generation of code. These changes suggest modification of the namespace operations.
dotnetversionedazure-functionssdkconsumers
microsoft/appcenter-sdk-apple
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Development repository for the App Center SDK for iOS, macOS and tvOS.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 commits, 8 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Smitha's commits primarily focused on implementing token caching mechanisms within the App Center SDK for Apple. They modified code related to token exchange and retrieval, utilizing the keychain for secure storage. The changes involved adding methods to save, retrieve, and remove cached tokens, and also included modifications to data models. These changes indicate a focus on improving security and efficiency by reducing the need to repeatedly request authentication tokens.
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