Tushar Bhatnagar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTushar Bhatnagar is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering production-grade systems across mixed reality, Windows, and cloud platforms. At Microsoft he led client and service engineering for Azure Spatial Anchors and HoloLens, improving hologram persistence, reducing gRPC bandwidth by 30%, halving build times, and pioneering a Docker-based cross-platform SDK workflow. He blends deep C++ systems expertise with DevOps and build engineering, having built an interop framework for algorithmic components and scaled vcpkg-based OSS adoption across multiple products. Known for solving constrained hardware problems—modularizing head tracking for HoloLens SoC performance—and for pragmatic tooling improvements, he accelerates developer velocity while improving runtime efficiency. Passionate about practical innovation, he also brings early research and multimedia engineering experience from university projects that saved costs and expanded deployment.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (58)
marshalling10
github-actions-runner10
protocol-buffers10
setuptools10
windows10
linux10
cross-platform10
cmake10
data-interchange10
serialization10
protoc10
interchange10
rpc10
visual-studio10
azure-pipelines10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tusharb86/protobuf
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
protocol-buffersbinary-datagoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatprotobuf
tusharb86/vcpkg
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
wxwidgetscpplinux-windowswindowsc-library
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