Vighnesh Iyer
Software Engineer at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolVighnesh Iyer is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building production systems, currently developing software at Microsoft after roles at Grainger and various university research and tutoring positions. He blends practical backend and full‑stack skills with a passion for improving CS education—previously teaching large Java labs and tutoring foundational CS courses. A graduate student at UIUC, he focuses on functional and reactive programming (notably Kotlin) and brings that mindset to designing maintainable, testable code. His background ranges from Android data-collection services and Node.js servers to web QA and CI workflows, reflecting comfort across languages and tooling. Colleagues describe him as an educator-engineer who translates complex concepts into usable systems and developer-friendly workflows.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.7 at University at BuffaloUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Urdu
Github Skills (6)
javascript4
bash4
console4
linux3
js3
cli2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
viyer5/TesterRank
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
viyer5/fake-terminal-website
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
A fully customizable terminal-like website template
Contributions:4 pushes in 22 days
jstemplatecustomizableterminalparcel
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