Smitha Saligrama
Partner Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSmitha Saligrama is a Partner Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with nine years in senior engineering leadership and two decades of hands-on software delivery experience. She blends deep technical expertise in cloud, healthcare AI, and DevOps with an entrepreneurial mindset that drives product from ideation through rollout and monitoring. At Microsoft she led efforts that shipped AI-driven healthcare solutions—helping launch Dragon Copilot and open-sourcing clinical ML models—and built the Azure Health De-Identification service. A builder of teams from zero, she focuses on hiring, culture, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with partners like Stanford, NHS, and Mayo Clinic. Her open-source contributions to FO-DICOM and microsoft/dicom-server show a practical commitment to robust medical imaging and DICOMweb backends, improving serialization, query parsing, and performance. Based in Bellevue, she pairs strategic product vision with code-level problem solving and a habit of publishing technical reflections on Medium.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Nation Institute of Engineering, MysoreDB and Algorithms courses from coursera, DB and Algorithms courses from coursera at Stanford University
Github Skills (18)
back-end-development10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
query-parser10
sql10
parse10
dotnet-core10
dicom10
csharp10
json-serialization10
apidoc9
database-design9
api9
medical9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/dicom-server
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
OSS Implementation of DICOMweb standard
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:804 reviews, 127 commits, 163 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Smitha primarily contributed to the backend of the `microsoft/dicom-server` repository, focusing on the implementation of features related to the DICOMweb standard. They made changes to persistence layers, data filtering, and implemented a query parser. Code changes also included migrating to use streams, resolving performance issues, and adding support for features such as full-text indexes and support for Unicode characters.
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fo-dicom/fo-dicom
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Fellow Oak DICOM for .NET, .NET Core, Universal Windows, Android, iOS, Mono and Unity
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 10 commits, 1 PR in 11 months
Contributions summary:Smitha focused on improving the JSON serialization and deserialization of DICOM objects, particularly dealing with Person Name (PN) data. They addressed a bug related to PN name handling and added new tests to ensure correct behavior. Their work involved modifying code within the serialization and deserialization logic, fixing data model issues, and improving how the application handles private creator data. These changes enhance the robustness of the FO-DICOM library.
ios-androidc-sharpunityioswindows-universal
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