Utkarsh Patankar
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Hyderabad Area India
Summary
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Top SchoolUtkarsh Patankar is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building low-level systems and platform features at Microsoft and NVIDIA, specializing in C/C++, device drivers, and cross-platform (Linux/Windows) engineering. He has driven major features in the Edge browser—extensions APIs, PDF content protection, and store integration—while contributing patents for browser tab management and time-travel capabilities for gaming. At NVIDIA he co-created parts of the VR and directional audio SDK, designed low-latency audio and adaptive jitter-buffer algorithms, and helped ship audio drivers and ShadowPlay features. Comfortable across firmware-to-application boundaries, he blends strong algorithmic and systems foundations with a track record of shipping production features and mentoring teammates. Based in Hyderabad, he pairs top-tier academic credentials from VNIT and IIT Bombay with a knack for turning research-level ideas into deployable platform solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 9.04, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, 9.04 at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
accessibility10
webdriver10
devrel10
documentation10
devtools10
microsoft9
opera-extension9
zip8
chrome-extension8
firefox-addon8
chrome7
firefox6
opera5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftEdge/MicrosoftEdge-Extensions-Demos
Jan 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:2 commits in 4 years 5 months
utkarshspat/crxviewer
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Add-on / web app to view the source code of Chrome / Firefox / Opera 15 extensions and zip files.
Contributions:11 pushes in 16 days
firefoxopera-extensionwebextensionoperachrome
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