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# Kaushik Sahu on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft \| Ex\-Adobe

## About

I design and build scalable end\-to\-end systems across mobile, web, cloud services and Windows\. I have 12\+ years of engineering experience, including 6\+ years at Microsoft\. At Microsoft, I have been the technical lead for Microsoft Family for 5 years\. In that role I've: • Led web engineering for an experience serving 3M monthly active users \(2024\)\. • Led iOS app development, contributing to a rating improvement from 3\.0 to 4\.5\. • Re\-architected web and backend services for the EU Digital Markets Act and delivered them to production\. • Led improvements to service reliability and developer productivity\. • Built AI\-assisted developer tools, including a Copilot debugging agent using MCP\. Earlier, at Adobe, Times Internet \(Gaana\) and REVE Systems, I built fraud prevention and security features, consumer mobile apps, and 8\+ iOS VoIP apps\. I care about clean architecture, maintainable code and mentoring engineers to deliver as a team\. Skills: System Design · Data Structures & Algorithms · C · C\+\+ · C\# / \.NET · Objective\-C · Swift · iOS · React · TypeScript · Windows Applications · Azure · Microservices

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

github copilot

openai

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 11 mos, Hyderabad, Backend Architecture & System Design: Led architecture across 15 microservices, with selected services handling 70K RPS\. Served on the Service Review Board and led incident reviews\. Led product\-wide restructuring for the Digital Markets Act, redesigning backend services, API contracts and component boundaries to enable platform\-specific data separation\. Cut service\-side error rates by 30%\. Reduced Family costs by 70% by replacing Cosmos DB with Azure Table Storage\. Mobile & Web Leadership: Led mobile and web engineering for 8M monthly active users; improved page\-load performance by 40% through optimization\. Led iOS implementation, contributing to the app rating rising from 3\.0 to 4\.5 by 2024; partnered with Identity and Xbox on onboarding and platform migrations\. AI\-Enabled Products & Engineering: Applied AI across product features and engineering workflows\. Built Octane, an AI\-enabled SDLC tool, and led org\-wide adoption and coaching\. Built a Copilot \+ MCP \+ WinDbg agent to automate symbol resolution, binary deployment and breakpoint setup; validated on test VMs\.

Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, Jun 2020 \- Feb 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Adobe, Nov 2018 \- Jan 2019 · 3 mos, Noida Area, India

Computer Scientist at Adobe, 2018 \- 2020 · 2 yrs, Noida Area, India, Developed fraud\-detection and prevention capabilities for Creative Cloud purchases and strengthened product security through Windows OS\-level engineering\.

Technology Lead at REVE Systems, Jul 2017 \- Aug 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Software Engineer at Times Internet \(Gaana\), 2017 \- 2018 · 1 yr, Noida Area, India, Developed iOS features for Gaana and contributed to The Times of India mobile application\.

Software Engineer at REVE Systems, Jun 2014 \- Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Software Engineer at REVE Systems, 2014 \- 2017 · 3 yrs, New Delhi, Delhi, India, Built 8\+ iOS VoIP applications, implementing networking capabilities using SIP, RTP and SDP\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Information Technology, Jadavpur University

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