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# Sachin Kulkarni on Tal

## Headline

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

## About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry\. Skilled in HTTP, Networking, Networking Protocols, Low Level and Kernel Programming, Operating Systems\. Strong engineering professional with a Masters focused in Computer Science and Networking from the University of Illinois at Urbana\-Champaign\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

github copilot

## Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, Feb 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developer on the Azure VPN Team\.

Principal Software Engineer Lead at Microsoft, May 2025 \- Feb 2026 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Currently the lead for the networking team at IDC leading efforts like Containers Networking on Windows, Data path networking protocols like TCPIP, MsQuic and Software Defined Networking\.

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, Sep 2023 \- Jul 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos, Redmond, Washington, United States, As a Principal Software Engineer, I helped design and code the client certificate auth for incoming traffic and authenticating the traffic NanoProxy proxied to the backends, which was critical to secure sensitive traffic on the backends\. I also helped code review, and design review CDN related changes on the proxy that was being implemented in NanoProxy\.

SDE Intern at Microsoft, May 2013 \- Jul 2013 · 3 mos, Redmond, Washington, \* Intern in the HTTP team, worked on HTTP 2\.0 \* Researched, coded\-up and gathered results on the pros and cons of HTTP 2\.0 feature called Server Push\.

Master of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana\-Champaign, Aug 2012 \- Dec 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

System Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies, Feb 2010 \- Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Worked as a developer on many projects within Akamai Streaming \(Networking\) domain\. \* Gained hands\-on experience on protocols like HTTP, RTSP, RTMP, RTP TCP, IP\. \* Added critical bug fixes that improved performance for premium customers\. \* Provided extensive amount of training to the team members on the projects I worked on\. The trainings I gave have been digitally recorded for the benefit of future joiners in the team\. \* Single\-handedly transferred the knowhow of a critical network from the US team to the India streaming team

## Education

Masters, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana\-Champaign

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, R\. V\. College of Engineering, Vishveswaraiah Technological University

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