Tejas Patil is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft at Microsoft. Colleagues describe him as "Tejas joined the Microsoft backbone about a year ago. Very fast she proved to be a great coder, fast learner and team player by automating several of the network workflows. Tejas was not familiar with backbone when joining the team, but worked really hard to understand how the devices and the protocols work. By doing so, Tejas is able to write better code for the network, but also troubleshoot and resolve incidents. " and "Tejas was a student in my CS421 class (Natural Language Processing) in spring 2012 and then the teaching assistant for the same class in Spring 2013. She was excellent in both positions. In CS421, students work on a project in pairs, and their software is run in a blind test, pitted against all the other students'. Tejas and a classmate won the competition in 2012 -- ie, their software performed the best. As a teaching assistant, she was always on top of her work, very responsive to students, and in general, a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend her for any position of responsibility in IT."