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- 👋🏽 I'm Nitya Narasimhan
- 👩🏽🎓 I'm a PhD, a Polymath, and a Parent.
- 👩🏽💻 I'm a Senior AI Advocate in Core AI & GitHub at Microsoft.
- 🎨 I'm a visual storyteller using illustrations to help learners.
- 💡 I'm an innovator with 10+ patents in mobile & ubiquitous computing.
- 🎙 I'm a tech speaker, content creator, and community builder
- 🗽 I'm based in Hudson Valley, near New York City
Nitya Narasimhan, PhD, is a senior member of the Core AI Developer Relations team at Microsoft, working across the Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot ecosystems. As "developer 0" for these products, she lives by a simple mantra — "Help. People. Learn." — translating early hands-on feedback into better products, complex ideas into visual stories, and scalable content into community momentum.
A polyglot and self-described expert generalist, Nitya brings 25+ years of software research, engineering, and advocacy experience spanning industry, startups, academia, and open community. Her PhD work focused on middleware for reliable distributed systems, and her interests since have spanned ubiquitous computing, mobile and web development, and cloud & AI. She is also a prolific innovator with 14 granted patents, having served as a patent champion for research teams and a patent reviewer for internal product teams during her decade at Motorola Research. She thrives at the messy intersections — bringing clarity to ambiguity and driving collaborative momentum across distributed, multi-disciplinary teams.
Nitya is also a recognized community leader in the Greater New York area, known for building Google Developer Group NYC and AI Developers & Entrepreneurs (NYC) from scratch into thousands-strong communities and mentoring a more diverse generation of speakers and leaders. Under her leadership, these groups run everything from multi-day conferences to skilling workshops and multi-week study groups — safe, welcoming spaces for developers to learn, build, and share in a fast-moving tech ecosystem.
Find her online: GitHub · LinkedIn · Hugging Face
Nitya Narasimhan, PhD is a senior member of Microsoft's Core AI Developer Relations team, focused on the Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot ecosystems. As "developer 0" for these products, her role boils down to three words: Help. People. Learn. A polyglot and expert generalist with 25+ years across industry, startups, academia, and community, her work spans distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, mobile & web, and cloud & AI — using visual storytelling to make complex ideas actionable. She is also an innovator with 14 granted patents, earned during a decade at Motorola Research as a patent champion and technical reviewer.
She's a well-known NYC community leader, having built GDG NYC and AI Developers & Entrepreneurs (NYC) from scratch into thousands-strong groups that run conferences, skilling workshops, and multi-week study groups — and mentored diverse generations of speakers along the way.
Find her online: GitHub · LinkedIn · Hugging Face
Nitya Narasimhan, PhD is "developer 0" on Microsoft's Core AI Developer Relations team, working across Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot. A polyglot, expert generalist, and innovator with 25+ years in research, engineering, and advocacy — and 14 granted patents from her decade at Motorola Research — she turns complex AI concepts into visual stories and skilling content that educates developers. She is a longtime NYC community builder growing GDG NYC and AI Developers & Entrepreneurs (NYC) into thousands-strong communities known for conferences, workshops, and study groups offering developers a welcoming space to learn, build, and share.
Find her online: GitHub · LinkedIn · Hugging Face
Nitya Narasimhan, PhD — "developer 0" for Microsoft Foundry & GitHub Copilot, 14× patented innovator, NYC community builder, polyglot, expert generalist, visual storyteller.
Find her online: GitHub · LinkedIn · Hugging Face
I want to: Help. People. Learn.
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