Headline

Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Distributed Systems | AI-powered Movement Coach | Backend | Amazon

About

I'm a Software Engineer at Microsoft building large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend services that power production workloads. I enjoy solving complex engineering problems involving scalability, reliability, distributed architectures, and developer productivity. Outside of work, I spend most of my time building AI products. My current project is an AI-powered movement coaching platform that combines speech-to-speech interaction, LLMs, embodied avatars, computer vision, and cloud-native backend services to create a personalized learning experience. What motivates me most is building systems that bridge strong engineering with meaningful user experiences. I enjoy taking products from idea to production, thinking deeply about architecture, observability, performance, and long-term maintainability. My technical interests include: • Distributed Systems • Backend Engineering • Cloud Infrastructure • AI Applications & LLM Systems • System Design • Developer Tools I'm always excited to collaborate with ambitious teams solving challenging engineering problems and building products that have real-world impact.

Location

Greater Hyderabad Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

github copilot

opencode

Work experience

Software Engineer at Microsoft, Aug 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Hyderabad, Designed and developed backend services powering Microsoft Teams Hybrid Edge infrastructure for cross-cloud communication. Built and maintained distributed services handling messaging, presence, and calling scenarios across sovereign cloud environments. Improved service reliability through resilient retry mechanisms, telemetry, and fault handling. Migrated production services from Source Depot to Git, improving build efficiency and developer productivity. Contributed to containerized deployments on Kubernetes-based infrastructure while improving deployment reliability. Developed internal APIs and backend components using C# and .NET. Built monitoring and observability using Geneva telemetry. Worked on authentication, service-to-service communication, and secure cloud infrastructure. Diagnosed and resolved production issues across distributed services. Collaborated across engineering teams to investigate incidents and improve service stability. Improved deployment confidence through testing, monitoring, and automation.

Founder at Dance.ai, Jan 2026 - Mar 2026 · 3 mos, My arena, Building an AI companion that combines real-time voice conversations, embodied interaction, and human movement coaching. Currently exploring: • Embodied AI & AI companions • Speech-to-speech interactions • Human motion generation & animation • Personalized movement, stretching & posture guidance • Behavior design & habit formation • Real-time 3D avatars Long-term vision: Building AI that doesn’t just answer questions, but helps people move, learn, and build healthier habits through natural interaction.

Associate SDE intern at Sabre India, Jan 2022 - May 2022 · 5 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer Intern at Amazon, May 2021 - Jul 2021 · 3 mos, India, Worked in Amazon Pay team to reduce the throttling of requests on one of the downstream services Built backend components as part of an Amazon engineering team during a software engineering internship. Worked with production engineering practices including code reviews, testing, and deployment workflows. Collaborated with mentors and engineers to deliver production-ready features.

Member at chess team nit jamshedpur, Aug 2018 - Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Nit Jamshedpur

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur

Public links

github: https://github.com/rohitacharyams