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Software Engineer II at Microsoft | 4 x Azure | Java | .NET Core

About

Software Engineer with 8+ years building scalable backend systems at Microsoft, VMware, and high-growth startups. I specialize in designing cloud-native architectures, microservices, and developer platforms on Java/.NET with a focus on performance, reliability, and shipping fast. I've owned products end-to-end: from system design through CI/CD automation to production observability. What I bring to a team: • Architected and delivered distributed systems handling millions of requests across Microsoft and VMware • Deep expertise in .NET, Java, Azure, AWS, microservices, and infrastructure automation • Startup-forged ability to take ambiguous problems from zero to shipped product • Azure certified, with strong opinions on building systems that don't page you at 3am I'm always up for conversations about system design, backend engineering, or interesting technical challenges, feel free to reach out.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

github copilot

openclaw

ChatGPT

Work experience

Software Engineer II at Microsoft, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware, Jun 2022 - Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As a full stack engineer on the Security Product Engineering team in VMware's InfoSec organization my skills are critical to supporting developing web applications for secure release pipelines, compliance automation, and estimating the total cost of security for BU leadership and product owners. - Developed the cutting-edge Security Service Dashboard (SSD) to empower executive business users with real-time visibility into S&R spend and current security posture. - Enabled service owners to precisely understand the security services they are consuming, optimising cost efficiency and compliance levels. - Leveraged the SSD to provide critical information such as threat management costs, configured use cases and detections, cloud platform costs, vulnerability management costs, and asset ownership details. - Implemented data collection and aggregation to optimize log storage, forwarding, ingestion, and indexing, as well as vulnerability management services and license allocation.

Senior Engineer - Cloud Software and Services at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Contributed to the ongoing evolution of the existing applications and services. Remain current on new technologies, evaluated and made recommendations as necessary. Assisted in task planning, estimation, scheduling, and staffing.

Software Engineer at Icertis, Dec 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Pune Area, India, I joined as a software engineer in Icertis, a unicorn-based startup that deals with a contract lifecycle management platform that allows a company to digitize and store all of its contracts in the cloud. - In addition to my responsibilities as a software engineer, I'm responsible for creating a technical design document and feature designing, development, and implementation. - Created template for reusable backend repositories with publishable components for code sharing (Angular, ASP.NET Core)

Junior Software Engineer at First Insight Corporation, Sep 2017 - Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Pune, Full stack developer where I worked on all pieces of the tech stack(a necessity for small teams at a startup) and specializing in the Microsoft .NET technologies.

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science, Scaler

PG-DAC, Computer Science, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)

Public links

github: https://github.com/rachit77s

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/rachit77s