I am Ganessh Kumar and I am a software engineer at Microsoft. I am a full-stack developer passionate about building AI-powered solutions and modern web applications, with a strong emphasis on performance and user experience.
I am currently working on Microsoft Fabric, a unified analytics platform that empowers organizations to get the most value from their data and accelerate their AI journey. I love creating solutions that make people's lives easier and more productive.
Before Fabric, I spent a good amount of time working on Microsoft Teams. The most interesting part was building agentic workflows that cut channel noise and the fatigue of keeping up. I also worked on the lifecycle of teams and channels, the notification system and a set of compliance features.
In my free time, I enjoy building ObsidianStats, a platform to find the best Obsidian plugins for a workflow and also to stay up-to-date on Obsidian plugins and themes. I also love creating plugins for Obsidian. I have created a few plugins that enhance the functionality of Obsidian, such as:
You can find all my plugins on the Obsidian community hub or on my GitHub page. I hope you find them useful and feel free to give me feedback or suggestions.
Teaching has been part of it too. For about three and a half years, from 2016 to 2020, I mentored learners in the Machine Learning course on Coursera. That was before it retired the mentorship program.
On this website, I will share my thoughts and experiences on software development, my learnings, productivity, Obsidian, and other topics that interest me. I hope you enjoy reading my posts and learn something new along the way. Thank you for visiting and stay tuned for more!
Research from my work that made it into the patent record.
US 11,755,844 B2 · Granted 2023
A method for summarizing email automatically. It classifies each sentence as a decision, judgement, inference or fact, clusters the related ones, then builds a short summary from the highest-scoring cluster.
Co-inventor · Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
View on Google PatentsLanguages, frameworks and tools I reach for.
The articles are where I think out loud about engineering. The projects are where it ships. Both are better proof than anything I could claim on this page.