Srivatsn Narayanan
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSrivatsn Narayanan is a seasoned engineering leader with 18+ years building developer tooling, compilers, and cloud developer experiences, now driving partner-facing infrastructure programs at Microsoft Azure. He led GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio Live Share efforts, scaling teams of ~60 to deliver remote development, collaboration, and tunneling services that span IDE, browser, and backend infra. Deeply technical, he co-created language features and tooling in the .NET ecosystem (including work on async, Roslyn analyzers, and sdk-style projects) and contributes to OSS projects like Gistpad, improving browser auth and full-stack compatibility. Comfortable switching between low-level compiler work and large distributed services, he has a track record of turning incubation projects into productized offerings and enabling third-party services (Oracle, NVIDIA, NetApp) on Azure. Based in Bothell with an M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic product leadership and a knack for shipping developer-facing platforms that delight users.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Github Skills (28)
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javascript10
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typescript10
dotnet10
vscode-extension10
refactor10
browser-support10
netframework10
asp-net10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
typescripts10
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csharp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/roslyn-analyzers
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 247 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Srivatsn's commits focus on refactoring and moving code within the Roslyn analyzers repository. Their contributions involve relocating existing code elements and fixing up test cases. The user is directly modifying and improving the internal structure and organization of the analyzer code. This includes changes related to refactoring of the code and related tests.
dotnet/project-system
May 2016 - Jul 2017
The .NET Project System for Visual Studio
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:421 commits, 273 PRs, 185 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Srivatsn primarily contributed to the .NET project system by implementing special file providers for various configuration files, including settings, resources, and application configuration files. They created skeleton implementations and refactored code to an abstract class to share common logic. These changes involved adding new classes, modifying existing project files, and ensuring the correct association of special files within the project structure. The user also updated the project files to include new XAML property rules and ensured that the application could correctly manage various dependency files.
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