Nishant Manchanda

University of California, Irvine, CA

Graduated: June 2016

Master of Science in Engineering Management

Henry Samuel School of Engineering and Paul Merage School of Business

Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

Graduated: May 2015

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA

July 2024 - Present

Engineering Manager

• Lead a 10-engineer team shipping client apps, cloud services, and AI solutions for the devices supply chain.
• Delivered consumer-facing diagnostics (Surface Repairability Tool) and telemetry ingestion infrastructure powering cloud deployments.
• Launched three production AI assistants for enterprise QnA and semi-autonomous data updates, serving 500+ internal users with 50% stickiness.
• Drove org-leading GitHub Copilot adoption and pull request completion across Windows Devices.
• Reduced infrastructure spend by $4.8M annually with a Zero Trust architecture leveraging Microsoft Intune Conditional Access and Azure ARC.
• Oversee manufacturing services spanning 10+ microservices, supporting 15M+ devices annually at 99.999% SLA and 800M requests.
• Ran hiring and upskilling programs, achieving 100% Azure AI proficiency and top-talent retention.
• Serve as digital resiliency lead, partnering with executives, tier-1 manufacturers, and logistics suppliers to mitigate supply chain risk for a $5B business.
• Technologies: Azure Foundry, Azure PaaS, Azure DevOps, M365 Teams Toolkit for Agents, Microsoft Intune, Azure ARC.

Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA

April 2022 - July 2024

Senior Software Engineer / Architect

• Architected cloud services for the devices supply chain, managing 250+ endpoints aligned with the Well-Architected Framework and improving modularity by 70%.
• Designed Azure-hosted MLOps infrastructure (Azure ML, AKS) for fraud detection, enabling secure model lifecycle management.
• Implemented IaC for FEDRAMP DoD IL4 Azure Gov, launching 10+ services handling 1M daily requests at 99.995% SLA.
• Created a cloud-native configuration management service to orchestrate manufacturing limits in the Manufacturing Change Review process.
• Technologies: .NET, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Front Door, WAF, VNETs, Cosmos DB, SQL DB, Azure ML Studio, Python.

Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA

August 2021 - April 2023

Software Development Engineer – Level 62

• Built a dynamic Rust-based MQTT metrics collector to stream IoT Edge telemetry to Azure IoT Hub Log Analytics, cutting memory usage by 50% and footprint by 33%.
• Delivered a global validation toolkit certifying IoT Edge compatibility across custom hardware and operating systems.
• Automated integration testing with GitHub Actions, reducing defects and regressions by 30%.
• Technologies: Rust, Bash, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Actions, YAML pipelines.

Microsoft Corp, Redmond, WA

March 2019 - August 2021

Software Development Engineer

• Led development of manufacturing test hardware for HoloLens, Xbox, and Surface, elevating product quality.
• Authored reusable .NET Core libraries for secure bearer-token communication, expanding factory-to-cloud integrations.
• Shipped C# automation for robot-driven testing with secure HTTP and TCP/IP communication to control factory GPIO.
• Created reusable hardware control libraries for sensors, RF, and audio systems to improve scalability and maintainability.
• Achieved 90% unit test coverage and built Azure DevOps pipelines for automated validation.
• Technologies: C#, .NET, Azure DevOps.

CalAmp Corp, Carlsbad, CA

July 2017 - February 2019

Firmware Engineer

• Developed firmware for next-generation telematics devices in resource-constrained, multi-threaded environments.
• Built smoothing algorithms in C/MATLAB to improve vehicle fuel accuracy, contributing to increased sales.
• Created a FreeRTOS buffering algorithm to cut startup data loss by 97% and designed DSP-based ignition detection.
• Implemented ARM power-saving strategies reducing consumption by 87% over legacy devices.
• Technologies: C, MATLAB, FreeRTOS, Ubuntu, Jira.

Tata Consultancy Services, Carlsbad, CA

September 2016 - June 2017

Embedded Software Engineer

• Developed safety-compliant embedded software in C and MATLAB for hybrid motor control systems.
• Delivered core communication, diagnostics, and signal-processing features for embedded controllers.
• Led hardware bring-up via bootloader configuration and SPI driver development.
• Ensured MISRA and ISO 26262 compliance, reducing guideline violations through MATLAB-driven optimization.
• Technologies: C, MATLAB.