Nihar Rathod is an experienced engineer currently serving as a Senior Software Engineer at Google since 2023. Before this role, Nihar worked at Microsoft from 2019 to 2022 as a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure team, focusing on control and data plane operations. Nihar has also held positions at MakeMyTrip.com and Dell R&D center, Bangalore, and served as a Teaching Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Nihar earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from A. D. Patel Institute of Technology in 2010.