# Aditya Bist

> Senior Software Engineer at Affirm

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adityabist

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
Data Foundations:
- Storage and Replication
- Online Database Storage Systems
- Privacy and Compliance Engineering
- Data Governance
- Observability and Metrics

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Redmond
- Owner of Microsoft SQL Server extension for VSCode (3.6M+ installs and
340k+ Monthly Active Users)
- Led 32% increase in Dedicated Monthly Active Users to 248k+ in the first
month of ownership. Total 82% increase to 339k+ Monthly Active Users since
ownership in a year(Sept 2019)
- Core Engineer and Product Release Manager for Azure Data Studio.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington, United States
- Full Stack engineer on the SQL Databases Tools team (SQL Server
Management Studio, Azure Data Studio, MSSQL for VSCode etc.)
- Owner of all user and application telemetry data collection and reporting for all
Microsoft SQL Tools.
- Owner of Microsoft SQL Tools Security and Privacy. Also led GDPR
Compliance for all Microsoft SQL Tools.

### Software Engineering Intern @ ClearSlide
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Worked on the Android Dev team to release the ClearSlide Mail app on the Google Play Store
- Won the "Best Feature" award in the company wide engineering hackathon for a newly implemented auto-transcribing API which was selected for product release

### Software Engineering Intern @ Better Finance (SmartBiz Loans)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Worked on and shipped the web application for the company's new auto-loan approval product offering.
- Successfully launched product, acquiring deals from T-Mobile and MetroPCS

### Class Grader and Course Center Tutor @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- Graded homeworks, assignments, labs and exams for Physics for Engineers class
- Held tutoring sessions on weekends for CMU Tutoring

### Intern @ MindTickle
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Worked on the "Math Gyaan Project", creating and delivering content for Grade 10 students in India, teaching them mathematics through an online interactive content delivery model

### Intern @ SCIPE Inspire Camp
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
The SCIPE Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Rajasthan was a program for high school students across the state, which aimed to get students exposed to research.

Research intern in the Physics Laboratory, University of Rajasthan.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

### Senior Secondary School in Science
Neerja Modi School
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adityabist
- Website: http://www.adityabist.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22