# Natasha Shah

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/natashashah

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Notion
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States
• Microsoft Loop: Implemented the framework for collaborative components as messages in Teams using Microsoft Loop allowing live editing and portability across Microsoft 365 apps; Led accessibility, globalization, UX and enterprise-readiness; Further expanded the framework to add different component types e.g., table, lists, agendas, votes.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Conversation-as-a-platform: Implemented support for the Microsoft bot framework to add and converse with bots in chat and support different interactive message and content types used by bots such as text, gif, audio and video interactive cards.
• Cortana: Integrated with Cortana services to provide smart in-context replies in chat with text, emojis and interactive add-in content; Added support for personalization using Cortana as a bot for reminders, task lists and search using users’ MSA profiles.
• Add-ins: Implemented the platform for browsing and sharing content from websites such as YouTube and Giphy in chat.
• Poll: Led design and implementation of dynamic polls as a message type allowing real-time voting in chat.

### Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, California
Azure Document DB Migration and Azure Search Index Crawler (C#, Azure Document DB, Azure Search)
• Designed and developed backend feature portal to migrate, purge and backup Azure document DB collections.
• Implemented a crawler and indexer to update documents in Azure Search Index.

Azure Active Directory integration (C#, Azure Active Directory, ADFC, OAuth)
• Replaced the two-step Microsoft Corp STS and Skype login with Azure Active Directory Authentication for SSO and federation third-party logins in an internal Skype application.
• Implemented role-based access and authorization in the same application.

Skype Bedtime Stories (C#, jQuery, SignalR, Project Oxford)
• Designed and implemented co-browsing story sessions within the Skype clients.
• Added interactive animations, picture stories and automatic story reading by Cortana on text selection.

### Associate Consultant @ TIBCO Software
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Pune, India
• Designed, developed and integrated AMX BPM and GWT-based UI with IBM Ifaces and designed rest services for faster access of insurance claims.

### Summer Intern @ Tata Research Development and Design Centre
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Pune, India
• Relook at Windows Explorer: Implemented a solution to utilize user tags to remove the default folder hierarchy structure of Windows Explorer as a desktop application.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Information Technology
Pune Institute of Computer Technology

### Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/natasha415

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Last updated: 2026-03-22