I'm a software engineer at Microsoft, building AI-powered developer productivity tools that help developers ship their products and features faster. My resume is here. If you want to talk Developer Experience, AI for developer productivity or cricket, I'm always up for a good chat.
🚀 What I Do
- Helped build the Microsoft Developer Agent — an AI system in Microsoft Teams that automates the entire PR lifecycle for Azure DevOps repositories. Featured at Microsoft Build 2025.
- Designed an ML-based reviewer assignment system that serves 5,000+ developers and 20K+ pull requests across 1,000+ reviewer teams, using historical patterns, expertise, and geographic load balancing.
- Built Shanashma — a Claude Code plugin marketplace. Its first plugin, ado-flow, brings Azure DevOps workflows (work items, PRs, pipelines) into your terminal.
💻 Tech Stack
- Python, C#, Django, FastAPI
- Azure (Cosmos DB, OpenAI, Active Directory)
- OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect
- Machine Learning (traditional ML + LLMs)
- Event-driven architectures
📝 Recent Writing
- Shanashma — A Claude Code Plugin Marketplace for Azure DevOps - Building a shareable plugin marketplace with persistent configuration
- Building a Claude Agent for Continuous Codebase Improvement - Using AI sub-agents to incrementally improve codebases
- Teaching Machines to Find the Right Reviewers - Building ML-powered code review systems
- Understanding Authentication: OpenID Connect - Delegated authentication deep dive
- Understanding Authentication: OAuth 2.0 - From passwords to federated auth
🛠️ Projects
- Shanashma — A Claude Code plugin marketplace. Ships with ado-flow, a plugin that brings Azure DevOps workflows (work items, PRs, pipelines) into your terminal.
- Netflix Ratings Overlay — Chrome extension that shows IMDb & Rotten Tomatoes ratings on Netflix posters on hover. Built with Manifest V3, OMDb API, smart title matching, and local caching.
🌐 Find Me
- 🔗 Website: niketansrane.com
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/niketanrane
- 🐦 Twitter: @niketansrane
- 📧 Email: niketan.iiita@gmail.com
- ☕ Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/niketansrane
This repository is my personal website—a minimalist, Ubuntu-inspired blog where I write about developer productivity, authentication systems, machine learning, and building tools that make engineers' lives easier.
Live at: niketansrane.com