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Nishith Khantal

Director of Engineering

Bellevue, Washington, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Senior Manager at Amazon with extensive software development experience.
  • Led multiple initiatives at Microsoft enhancing Bing's capabilities.
  • Strong background in embedded systems and web services.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software development leader with a strong emphasis on search technologies.

Contact

LinkedIn

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
11 yrs
Average Tenure
6 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Senior Manager, Software Development

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2016 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Bing Whole Page Team: Triggering system for answers and entities, Novel entity based experiences, Offline entity pipeline.

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Bing Whole Page Team: New entity segments, Whole Page Improvements for Local, Query serving latency improvements

Senior Software Development Engineer

Aug 2008 – Feb 2014 · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Bing Whole Page Team, Bing Query Serving Pipeline Team, Bing Crawler Team

Microsoft research, redmond

Intern

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

  • I worked with the Embedded Systems Group. My work was based on embedded web services and trust in pervasive systems.

Contata solutions private limited

Intern

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

  • I worked on two projects. One project being done for a US based client was based on fuzzy matching. Other project was on short string compression.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

B.Tech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2004 – Jan 2008

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