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title: "Sakti Soumyakanta B. - Senior Software Engineer Lead / Staff - L64 | AdTech in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sakti Soumyakanta B., Senior SWE Lead / Staff @ Microsoft | Cloud Native Architect | Distributed System Design, Scalability & Telemetry Expert based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
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# Sakti Soumyakanta B\. on Tal

## Headline

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

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

github copilot

mcp

Microsoft Copilot

## 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

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