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Ashutosh Nigam

Principal Software Engineer  ·  Hyderabad, India

~/ashutosh — zsh
cat profile.json
{
  "name": "Ashutosh Nigam",
  "exp": "11.6 years",
  "stack": ".NET / AWS / Aritifical Intelligence",
  "uptime": "99.99%",
  "open_to_work": false
}

profile

About me

Ashutosh Nigam
11.6years experience
20+apps delivered
99.99%uptime achieved
40%cost reduction

Accomplished IT professional with over 11.6 years of expertise in software development, project management, and technical leadership. Skilled in the Microsoft .NET ecosystem (C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and modern AI/ML technologies. Demonstrated success in architecting high-performance solutions for processing datasets over 20 GB daily. Led global teams to deliver enterprise-scale applications with 99.99% uptime, resulting in operational cost reductions of up to 40%.

Apache Spark for Data Engineering and Machine Learning

edX

Issued May 12, 2023

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Issued Dec 17, 2025

Big Data, Hadoop and Spark Essentials

edX

Issued Apr 28, 2023

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Microsoft

Issued Dec 5, 2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

Microsoft

Issued Dec 13, 2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Issued Nov 13, 2022

experience
Principle Software Engineer
Blackbaud · Hyderabad, India
Mar 2025 – Present
  • Led modernization initiative integrating Blackbaud Identity with legacy platform, ensuring zero impact on existing users.
  • Migrated legacy systems and APIs to .NET Core, Azure cloud, and microservices architecture — ~40% performance improvement.
Lead Software Engineer
S&P Global · Hyderabad, India
Dec 2019 – Feb 2025
  • Designed data processing pipelines (Python + .NET Core) — 60% efficiency improvement for 20 GB+ daily datasets.
  • Built high-performance REST APIs with .NET Core and Python Flask — 40% faster retrieval, millions of daily requests at 2ms latency.
  • Applied AWS Neptune in EMRG project — 45% faster query response, 70% faster relationship data processing across millions of nodes.
  • Engineered BICS app on AWS Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, and Airflow — 99.99% uptime, 6,000+ jobs, 10 GB+ data daily.
  • Led cross-functional team of 10 developers — 20+ applications delivered at 98% on-time rate.
  • Built API Code Generator Tool that accelerates API building and deployment tenfold.
Software Engineer
NCR Corporation · Hyderabad, India
Aug 2015 – Dec 2019
  • Enhanced POS BackOffice module for 150+ retail locations — 30% faster transaction processing, 25,000+ daily transactions.
  • Built Windows API monitoring system tracking 10+ real-time metrics — reduced downtime by 65%, response time from 8h to 2h.
  • Optimized SQL Server processes — 60% faster uploads, 50% faster transaction processing.
  • Built 10+ Crystal Reports with automated delivery, saving 2+ hours weekly.
Software Developer
Threshold Software Solutions · Hyderabad, India
Jun 2014 – Jun 2015
  • Improved UX by 30% with responsive web apps using ASP.NET MVC and Bootstrap.
  • Executed WCF REST services for seamless data integration between system modules.
  • Created optimized SQL Server stored procedures and indexes — 40% faster query execution.
education
Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligence
2025 – Present

Currently pursuing M.Tech at IIT Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India.

MCA in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Jan 2022 – Dec 2024

Specialisation in AI & ML, Noida.

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
Jul 2006 – Jun 2009

B.Sc. in Information Technology, Rewa.

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Extending Claude Code with MCP Servers
06 May 2026 Extending Claude Code with MCP Servers
MCP — the Model Context Protocol — is the standard interface for plugging external tools and data sources into AI agents. In Claude Code, MCP servers turn the CLI into a hub that can query your database, search your Notion, browse your Linear, control your browser, and run any tool you can wrap in a process.
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Claude Code Subagents: Specialized AI Workers for Complex Tasks
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Subagents in Claude Code are independent AI workers spawned by the main agent to handle scoped tasks — code search, planning, security review, status-line setup. They run with their own context window, their own tool allowlist, and return a single summary. This post explains when to use them, how to author your own, and the patterns that work.
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Claude Code Hooks: Event-Driven Automation in Your Agent
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Hooks let you run shell commands automatically at specific points in Claude Code's lifecycle — before a tool runs, after an edit, when a session starts, when Claude stops. They are the harness's escape hatch for enforcing conventions, running formatters, sending notifications, and gating risky actions.
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Claude Code is keyboard-first. Knowing the shortcuts cuts friction dramatically — interrupt a runaway agent, paste multi-line prompts, scroll diffs, switch modes, and queue messages without ever reaching for the mouse. This is the cheat sheet.
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