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Sambit Sankalp

Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Backend (.NET, Go, Python) & Applied AI | LLM agents, MCP

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

Microsoft
Jun 20242 yrs 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru

- Built an agentic rollout validator that analyzes a change before release, then checks service health and metrics after, plus a wiki Q&A agent over team documentation. Also contributed to an on-call ticket-investigation agent. All three are used by engineers across multiple teams. - Created the PR Comment Prioritizer at a Microsoft hackathon: an LLM-powered tool that ranks AI review comments by severity and blast radius, using MCP tools to pull in codebase and discussion context. Adopted by developers and saved meaningful review time. - Contributed to a team migration of the Outlook Mail Message Service Protocol layer to .NET 10, using feature-flagged rollouts with automated pre/post health checks to keep critical APIs reliable at very high traffic. - Secured service-to-service communication with separate, scoped identities across services as part of Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative. - Built service-specific metrics that separate rollout-caused errors from other failures, giving faster signals for mitigation and speeding up incident resolution.
Microsoft
May 20232 mosJun 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Created a meaningful and interactive graph visualization library to analyse the numeric CSV data for analysts using WebGL and d3-force. - Enhanced force and data computation algorithms, adjusting force strength and utilizing web workers, boosting graph performance by 33%. - Along with adding meaningfulness and interactivity, made the graph informative for the analyst on interaction with the graph.
Skilzen
Feb 20233 mosApr 2023

Remote

- Collaborated with other frontend interns and product managers to improve the product in terms of features and performance. - Worked on integrating graphql queries with frontend using directus and graphql by introducing dyamicity in website. - Updated the frontend screens by redefining the CSS and increasing the responsiveness of the website with the reduction in code redundancy.
the homework app
Jan 20234 mosApr 2023

Remote

- Collaborated with a team of software engineers and product managers to improve the product in terms of performance and functionality. - Worked on optimizing API by adding the pagination and implementing caching using webhooks of Hasura resulting in API improving the performance of website. - Worked on developing tracking migration progress screens and fixed various dashboard bugs and improved the existing functionalities.
Monday Morning - The Official Student Media Body of NIT Rourkela
May 20222 yrsApr 2024

Raurkela, Odisha, India

- Contributing to development of the android app for the community. - Developing screens and integrating it with the GraphQL backend with Riverpod as state management tool.
Monday Morning - The Official Student Media Body of NIT Rourkela
May 20211 yr 1 moMay 2022

Raurkela, Orissa, India

- Have shifted the website from ReactJS to NextJS and added SEO to some of the website pages collaborating with other developers. - Have fetched data from the backend using GraphQLClient, added various components and pages to the website, and fixed some existing bugs, like resolving styling issues.
Monday Morning - The Official Student Media Body of NIT Rourkela
May 20217 mosNov 2021

Raurkela, Orissa, India

Designed various festive posters, caricatures and witsdom for Monday Morning.

Sambit’s AI Stack

LM Studio
LM Studio
Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Copilot
OpenAI Playground
OpenAI Playground

Education

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

20204 yrs2024

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Headline

Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Backend (.NET, Go, Python) & Applied AI | LLM agents, MCP

About

I'm a software engineer at Microsoft working on the Outlook backend and building LLM agents for engineering teams. AI-focused software engineer at Microsoft who ships LLM and agentic tools that engineers use every day, backed by strong production engineering on a large-scale service. Recent works: - Built and shipped agentic AI tools, including a wiki Q&A agent and a rollout-validation agent, adopted across multiple teams to cut manual effort and speed up release decisions. -Designed an LLM-based PR review-comment prioritizer with blast-radius analysis, taking it from hackathon prototype to real adoption by developers. -Owned the full lifecycle of internal AI tooling, from identifying the workflow pain point to prototyping, deploying, and driving adoption. -Helped lead a team migration of a high-traffic production service to .NET 10 using feature-flagged rollouts, keeping critical APIs reliable throughout. -Added service-specific observability metrics that sped up incident resolution, bringing the same reliability mindset to production AI systems.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

LM Studio

Microsoft Copilot

OpenAI Playground

Work experience

Software Engineer at Microsoft, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, - Built an agentic rollout validator that analyzes a change before release, then checks service health and metrics after, plus a wiki Q&A agent over team documentation. Also contributed to an on-call ticket-investigation agent. All three are used by engineers across multiple teams. - Created the PR Comment Prioritizer at a Microsoft hackathon: an LLM-powered tool that ranks AI review comments by severity and blast radius, using MCP tools to pull in codebase and discussion context. Adopted by developers and saved meaningful review time. - Contributed to a team migration of the Outlook Mail Message Service Protocol layer to .NET 10, using feature-flagged rollouts with automated pre/post health checks to keep critical APIs reliable at very high traffic. - Secured service-to-service communication with separate, scoped identities across services as part of Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative. - Built service-specific metrics that separate rollout-caused errors from other failures, giving faster signals for mitigation and speeding up incident resolution.

Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft, May 2023 - Jun 2023 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Created a meaningful and interactive graph visualization library to analyse the numeric CSV data for analysts using WebGL and d3-force. - Enhanced force and data computation algorithms, adjusting force strength and utilizing web workers, boosting graph performance by 33%. - Along with adding meaningfulness and interactivity, made the graph informative for the analyst on interaction with the graph.

Frontend Developer at Skilzen, Feb 2023 - Apr 2023 · 3 mos, Remote, - Collaborated with other frontend interns and product managers to improve the product in terms of features and performance. - Worked on integrating graphql queries with frontend using directus and graphql by introducing dyamicity in website. - Updated the frontend screens by redefining the CSS and increasing the responsiveness of the website with the reduction in code redundancy.

Full-stack Developer at the homework app, Jan 2023 - Apr 2023 · 4 mos, Remote, - Collaborated with a team of software engineers and product managers to improve the product in terms of performance and functionality. - Worked on optimizing API by adding the pagination and implementing caching using webhooks of Hasura resulting in API improving the performance of website. - Worked on developing tracking migration progress screens and fixed various dashboard bugs and improved the existing functionalities.

Technical Coordinator at Monday Morning - The Official Student Media Body of NIT Rourkela, May 2022 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs, Raurkela, Odisha, India, - Contributing to development of the android app for the community. - Developing screens and integrating it with the GraphQL backend with Riverpod as state management tool.

Technical Team Member at Monday Morning - The Official Student Media Body of NIT Rourkela, May 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo, Raurkela, Orissa, India, - Have shifted the website from ReactJS to NextJS and added SEO to some of the website pages collaborating with other developers. - Have fetched data from the backend using GraphQLClient, added various components and pages to the website, and fixed some existing bugs, like resolving styling issues.

Design Team at Monday Morning - The Official Student Media Body of NIT Rourkela, May 2021 - Nov 2021 · 7 mos, Raurkela, Orissa, India, Designed various festive posters, caricatures and witsdom for Monday Morning.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela