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title: "Manish Sharma - Software Engineer II in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Manish Sharma, Software Engineer II @ Microsoft | 4+ yrs building Hyperscale Distributed Systems & Backend Platforms | Ex-Urban Company | IIT Kanpur based in India. AI stack includes antigravity and codex. Explore public work links including github."
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# Manish Sharma on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer II @ Microsoft \| 4\+ yrs building Hyperscale Distributed Systems & Backend Platforms \| Ex\-Urban Company \| IIT Kanpur

## About

Software Engineer with 4\+ years building and scaling backend platforms that process billions of events per minute\. Currently at Microsoft \(M365 Security\), where I own hyperscale ingestion and middleware systems protecting Microsoft's internal server fleet\. I work at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and reliability — turning high\-scale, high\-stakes problems into resilient, cost\-efficient platforms\. What I do: • Critical owner of a security\-telemetry platform handling 4B\+ events/min and a middleware API at 500M\+ requests/min\. • Design event\-driven pipelines on Apache Spark, Azure Event Hubs, and Kafka with Near\-Real\-Time SLAs\. • Lead large\-scale migrations — currently Service Fabric \(Windows\) → Azure Kubernetes Service / AKS \(Linux\), driving \~40% infra cost reduction\. Earlier at Urban Company, I built developer infrastructure used across 150\+ microservices — an ORM wrapper, the open\-source "Flash" caching library, an MTTR system that cut outage RCA from \~30–60 min to \~1 min, and Kubernetes infra load\-tested at 5× traffic\. Tech I work with: C\#/\.NET, Python, TypeScript, Scala, Apache Spark, Kafka, Azure \(AKS, Event Hubs, Service Fabric, Kusto\), AWS \(EKS, ECS\), Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana\. Recognized with 2× Microsoft Spot Awards\. IIT Kanpur graduate\. Always open to conversations on large\-scale backend, distributed systems, and platform engineering\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

## Work experience

Software Engineer II at Microsoft, Jul 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Core owner of a hyperscale security\-telemetry platform protecting Microsoft's internal fleet \(Exchange, Teams, Skype\)\. • Own the ingestion ecosystem \(4B\+ events/min\) and middleware API \(500M\+ requests/min\)\. • Sustained Near\-Real\-Time SLAs across 400\+ Apache Spark pipelines; tuned jobs & partitioning to kill recurring alerts and prevent data loss\. • Leading Service Fabric \(Windows\) → AKS \(Linux\) migration — \~4× throughput via concurrency/batch tuning, targeting \~40% infra cost reduction\. • Hardened auth fleet\-wide: long\-lived secrets/certs → Managed Identity \+ Federated Identity Credentials \(FIC\); isolated IDNA/ESTS/MSA onto dedicated Event Hubs\. • Technical anchor for the US→India \(IDC\) transition of the 5PB Vanquish platform; enabled single\-click IaC onboarding for US Sovereign Clouds \(weeks → 2–3 days, 16 clouds\)\. 2× Microsoft Spot Award \(2025, 2026\)\.

Software Engineer at Urban Company, May 2022 \- Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Gurugram, Platform engineer across data privacy, reliability, and developer infra\. • Built a PII detection & encryption system — inter\-service traffic capture, graph\-based data\-flow mapping, OpenAI\-based DB scanning for compliance\. • Built the MTTR system from scratch: outage RCA time 30–60 min → \~1 min\. • Shipped an ORM wrapper \(Sequelize/Mongoose \+ TS\) adopted by 150\+ microservices; open\-sourced the "Flash" caching library used by 40\+\. • Owned A/B experimentation \+ alerting and centralized Rate Limiter & Distributed Lock Manager\. • Stood up staging Kubernetes infra \(ELK, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Vault\); Locust load\-tested 200\+ services at 5× traffic\. Cut AWS cost \~$33K\.

Software Engineering Intern at Peakflo, May 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 3 mos

## Education

Bachelor of Science \- BS, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/manish193

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