Sid Dahiya
Principal Software Architect at Microsoft
I architect and build software systems at scale. With over a decade at Microsoft, I focus on release infrastructure, telemetry platforms, privacy engineering, and delivering reliable distributed systems for products used by over a billion people.
Patents
Granted and published patents in telemetry optimization, privacy protection, and developer tooling — all assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
Real Time Telemetry Monitoring Tool
2021EP3808099A1
Technologies that help developers determine server resource usage caused by client application generated events, balancing the benefit of a given event with an estimated cost to process it.
View on Google Patents →Sampling of Telemetry Events to Control Event Volume Cost and Address Privacy Vulnerability
2024EP4356250A1
A system and method for sampling telemetry events — generating models that define conditions for event reporting and instructing client devices on whether to report incoming events.
View on Google Patents →Optimizing Telemetry Volume
2025US20250138821A1
A system for optimizing telemetry volume by calculating optimized sampling rates to reduce overall volume while maintaining tracking fidelity for application products.
View on Google Patents →Experience
10+ years at Microsoft across engineering, management, and architecture
Principal Software Architect
Microsoft
Architecting Microsoft Teams Release Infrastructure to scale for 1 billion daily users. Focus spans release pipelines and client configuration infrastructure, working across Teams groups to deliver features with speed and reliability.
Principal Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Managed Office's Customer Experiences (CX) Engineering Team. Established a team to grow the CX dashboard into an actionable platform used across Microsoft 365, providing customer insights for Microsoft Copilot experiences in Office, Teams, SharePoint, and more.
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Led the team providing Unified Telemetry Experiences for developers across Microsoft's Experiences and Devices organization. Delivered Telemetry SDKs and enrichment tools and services.
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Lead developer for Microsoft Office's proprietary privacy concern detection tooling, used across Office, Windows, Visual Studio, Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive. Built cross-platform telemetry SDKs in C++, Java, Objective-C, JavaScript/TypeScript, and .NET.
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Designed and implemented Microsoft Office's Diagnostic Data Viewer integration as part of Microsoft's Data Transparency commitments. Drove ITAR compliance updates and contributed to Microsoft 1DS C++ cross-platform telemetry SDK.
Privacy & Data Transparency
Deeply invested in building systems that respect user privacy while delivering valuable product insights.
Diagnostic Data Viewer
Designed and implemented Microsoft Office's integration of Diagnostic Data Viewer as part of Microsoft's Data Transparency commitments. Provided advisory and consulting support for other Microsoft teams to adopt the same transparency tooling.
Privacy Concern Detection
Lead developer for Microsoft Office's proprietary privacy concern detection tooling, adopted by Office, Windows, Visual Studio, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive to proactively identify and mitigate privacy risks in telemetry data.
Telemetry Sampling & Cost Control
Invented patented systems for sampling telemetry events to control event volume costs while addressing privacy vulnerabilities — reducing data collection without sacrificing product quality insights.
ITAR Compliance
Drove updates to ensure Microsoft Office's compliance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), meeting strict data handling requirements for regulated environments.
Certifications
- Accessibility in Action — Certified in building accessible and inclusive software experiences
Publications & Awards
Publications
Course Scheduling with Preference Optimization
Master's Thesis
Inclusion of Activity Revenue Generation in the Optimization of Multi-Activity Projects
Honors Thesis
Euclid21: Euclid's Elements for the 21st Century
Publication
Awards
Jeffery and Jean Merritt Honors Thesis Award
Best honors thesis for 2013.
First Prize — 2013 Undergraduate Exhibition (Physical Science)
For "Mapping Through the Elements."
IEEE XTreme 6.0
4th out of 27 in Region 2, 56th out of 231 in the US, 262nd out of 1,941 worldwide.
Education
Pennsylvania State University
Capital College
M.Sc. Computer Science (2013 – 2015)
B.Sc. Computer Science — Honors Program (2009 – 2013)
B.Sc. Mathematics — Honors Program (2009 – 2013)
Skills & Technologies
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- C++
- C#
- Python
- Java/Kotlin
- Objective-C/Swift
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- .NET
- Azure
- Distributed Systems
- System Design
- Cloud Architecture
- Release Infrastructure
- Telemetry & Data
- Privacy Engineering
- Cross-Platform SDKs
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Git
- SQL
- REST APIs
Featured Projects
ScriptsToShare
A collection of useful scripts and small utilities worth sharing more broadly. Tools and automation for everyday development workflows.
- Scripting
- Automation
- Developer Tools
stduuid
A C++17 cross-platform implementation for UUIDs. Contributed to and forked from the open-source community project.
- C++
- Cross-Platform
- Open Source
1DS C++ Client Telemetry SDK
Core contributor to Microsoft's cross-platform telemetry collection library — the 1DS C/C++ SDK powering data collection across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Built and maintained critical SDK components as part of Microsoft's One Data Strategy initiative.
- C++
- Cross-Platform
- Telemetry
- Open Source