Nithish Mahalingam
Partner Director Of Engineering at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNithish Mahalingam is a Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft in Redmond who leads teams applying software systems and machine learning to improve the power efficiency and sustainability of Azure Compute. He built and scaled the cloud infrastructure power-efficiency organization from scratch, delivering ML-driven optimizations that reduce energy use, carbon footprint and operational cost across global data centers. His background spans low-level systems and virtualization—he shipped UEFI-based Windows Phone boot innovations (including a UEFI USB Client protocol later accepted into the UEFI spec) and helped prototype the Android emulator that became part of Visual Studio. An active contributor to projects like microsoft/WinObjC, he holds multiple patents and publications and bridges hands-on engineering with strategic cloud sustainability leadership.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at College of Engineering, Guindy
Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
win-api10
foundation-sites10
ws-api10
wp-api10
foundation-site10
foundation10
core-foundation9
corelocation8
nsl7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
microsoft/WinObjC
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
Objective-C for Windows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 46 PRs, 31 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Nithish primarily contributed to the Objective-C implementation for Windows, focusing on the Foundation framework. Their work included implementing the NSCountedSet collection and adding support for NSAssertionHandler. They also established basic CoreLocation support, enabling start/stopUpdatingLocation functions, and added improvements to NSBundle and NSURL.
objective-cwindows
mnithish/WinObjC
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:49 pushes, 35 branches in 3 months
objective-cwindows
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