About Me
Hi, I'm Niketan.
I'm a software engineer at Microsoft, building AI-powered developer productivity tools that help developers ship their products and features faster.
If you want to talk Developer Experience, AI for developer productivity or cricket, I'm always up for a good chat.
My resume is publicly availablehere.
I'm very comfortable with Python, Django, Azure (Cosmos DB, OpenAI, Active Directory), OAuth 2.0, and building AI-powered automation using LLMs and RAG. I've also written production C# at Microsoft, but it's not my comfort zone (yet).
I spend most of my time writing C#, Python, and Kusto and tinkering with AI, building Developer Agents. One of the developer agent I worked on was recentlyfeatured in Microsoft Build 2025.
You'll often find me tinkering with event-driven architectures, Azure pipelines, or machine learning recommendation models.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer — Microsoft
- Architected Microsoft Developer Agent in Teams to automate PR workflows using Azure OpenAI.
- Delivered proactive notifications and intelligent reviews; featured at Microsoft Build 2025.
Software Engineer II — Microsoft
- Built PR velocity ecosystem for 2k+ devs and 250+ reviewer groups; event-driven C# + Cosmos DB.
- Designed ML-based reviewer assignment with geo load balancing; cut turnaround 12%.
- Implemented Teams bot for contextual alerts: builds, merge-ready, releases, SLA breaches.
Software Engineer II — Microsoft
- Built review + metrics dashboards: SLA breach tracking, percentiles, first response analytics.
- Created Teams Nudge with @mentions and DRAFT-first workflow for review-ready submissions.
- Redesigned monitoring for MS Teams: aggregate metrics + custom alerts; cut false alarms 70%.
Senior Software Engineer — Qualcomm
- Designed Bluetooth address management platform to prevent interference; earned Qualstar.
Software Engineer — Qualcomm
- Optimized test runs via smart grouping + clustering; cut redundant runtime ~34%.
- Scaled 3G log parser; improved regression detection accuracy from 63% to 85%.
Associate Software Engineer — Qualcomm
- Built automated 3G log parser for regression identification; reduced manual analysis 34%.
Projects
Shanashma
- A Claude Code plugin marketplace that sharpens existing developer tools, starting with practical Azure DevOps workflows.
- Claude Code · Azure DevOps · Markdown · Shell
Netflix Ratings Overlay
- A Chrome extension that shows IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes ratings directly on Netflix posters and hero banners.
- JavaScript · Chrome Extensions · Manifest V3 · OMDb API
Education
Electronics and Communication Engineering (CGPA: 8.92/10.0)