Nitya Narasimhan is a PhD, Polymath and Innovator with decades of software development and research experience across industry, startups and academia, with interests spanning distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, mobile/web development and machine learning. She is a long-time community and conference organizer in the Greater New York area, helping developers translate awareness of technology into actionable impact on software, products and careers. As a Senior Program Manager on the Cloud+AI Developer Relations team at Microsoft, she is currently focused on building programs and empowering communities to support academic, startup and professional audiences in the US. You can connect with here at #in/nityan or follow her @nitya.