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Senior SWE Lead / Staff @ Microsoft | Cloud Native Architect | Distributed System Design, Scalability & Telemetry Expert

About

Engineering Leader | Cloud-Native Architect | Microservices Expert | OpenTelemetry Contributor As an engineering leader passionate about building scalable, resilient systems, I specialize in designing and delivering cloud-native applications across both platform and product engineering domains. I bring a deep understanding of modern software architecture, Agile delivery, DevOps culture, cloud-first principles and observability. What I Bring to the Table: - Architectural Expertise: Deep experience designing and building cloud-native applications across diverse technology stacks, including modernizing monolithic systems into microservices and developing greenfield, container-first platforms using Docker and Kubernetes. - Distributed Systems: Experienced in designing and building scalable, resilient distributed systems and microservices, with a strong focus on reliability, fault tolerance, high availability, and performance. - DevOps & Cloud: Advocate of DevOps culture with practical know-how in CI/CD (ADO, Jenkins, Concourse, Bamboo), infrastructure as code, and scalable deployments on Azure, AWS, GCP and DigitalOcean. - Polyglot Programming: Extensive hands-on experience with multiple programming languages, used across a variety of use cases including automation, frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, RESTful APIs, data pipelines. - Open Source Contributions: Contributor to OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, helping improve observability across distributed systems. Beyond my technical skills, I thrive on mentoring engineers, driving engineering excellence, and building solutions that scale with simplicity and performance at their core. Domain Knowledge: • Ad Tech. • E-commerce. • E-learning. • Retail. • Gaming.

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Senior Software Engineer Lead / Staff - L64 | AdTech at Microsoft, Mar 2026 - Present · 8 mos, Bengaluru, - Leading platform migration across AdTech systems.

Senior Software Engineer - L63 | AdTech at Microsoft, Jun 2022 - Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, • Manage & lead Web Services Platform Engineering India Team in Microsoft Ads Engineering. • Collaborate with different product engineering teams to discuss newly built platform offerings. • Work on strategies for platform stability, performance, code quality & security in a cloud native environment. • Work on continuous improvements towards telemetry, monitoring, distributed tracing, logging & CI/CD processes. • Building new systems to support legacy system to perform better and stable. • Azure migrations & maintenance of legacy systems.

Senior Technical Specialist, Software Engineering - Platform Engineering | AdTech at AT&T, Apr 2022 - Jun 2022 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, • Worked on strategies for platform stability & performance, legacy system migrations, code quality, and distributed tracing.

Technical Specialist, Software Engineering - Platform Engineering | AdTech at AT&T, May 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, • Led the Web Services Platform Team in AdTech division. • Broadly learning the Ad Tech domain and the functional side of the platform. • Understood and worked along with the design & architecture of the AdTech Platform. • Vastly using DevOps and cloud native development practices and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Concourse, Jfrog. • Using multiple programming languages like PHP, Java , Python, Go for micro services, side car applications, automation and migration scripts. • Export & instrument of the infrastructure & application metrics using Prometheus/Grafana to monitor/alert/visualization. • Distributed tracing using Jaeger & Opentelemetry and an open-source contributor to Opentelemetry. • Messaging Queues. • TDD, BDD. • Code quality, Code review, Performance.

Technical Lead - Product Engineering | E-commerce at Happiest Minds Technologies, Jul 2019 - May 2020 · 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, • Worked as a Lead in Product Engineering Service - Business Unit. • Member of an agile software development project. • Contributed to multiple projects & POCs. • Understood the complex requirements and developing a robust solution. • Designed Backend APIs and integrating using cutting-edge JavaScript frameworks. • Converted Magento 1 based monolith e-commerce application to a microservices based one by using Java Spring Boot, which reduced the load on a couple of modules and boost the performance, used Spring Cloud Data Flow to migrate data from magento db to microservices db. • Worked with deployment automation using Shell, Bamboo & Jenkins. • Maintained code quality using Codesniffer, SonarQube & PSR standards. • Mentored junior developers.

Module Lead - Product Engineering | EdTech at Happiest Minds Technologies, Jan 2017 - Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Contributed to multiple other projects & POCs. • Analyze the complex requirements and developing a robust solution. • Worked with deployment automation using Shell, Bamboo & Jenkins. • Maintained code quality using Codesniffer, SonarQube & PSR standards. • Mentoring junior developers.

Technical Lead | Retail at Cyquent, Inc., Oct 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, • Mostly worked on mobile based application development for some of the big retail businesses like Landmark Group and P&G India distributor. • Built multiple application using LAMP stack, python, titanium, react native, shell script & AWS. • Designed APIs & backend applications for Mobile Apps. • Mentored Junior developers.

Senior Software Engineer | Gaming at Red Stallion Interactive, Feb 2014 - Sep 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos, Manama, Bahrain, • Worked for RSI Gaming WEB Platform Development & Restful API creation for cross-platform products as in Android and PC-Client. • Worked with Red Stallion Interactive's partner, Get Games on building and maintaining Get Games's .NET platform. • Worked closely with Game Developers to integrate RSI API. • Worked closely with Game Studios like Zombie Studios, Imperia Online Ltd & GCorps 6 Studios. • Worked for the enhancement and issue fixes on WEB Portal and API features. • Symofny2 third party bundle installation to integrate new features with doctrine and twig. • Added new features for API to support different Platforms. • Worked on sandbox and QA server configuration. • Worked on social media integration. • Did R&D to come up with new ideas to implement on the WEB platform. • Created new APIs to support the Android Platform & PC Client platform.

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Software Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha