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

Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Remote

Remote

Raurkela, Odisha, India

Raurkela, Orissa, India

Raurkela, Orissa, India




Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
National Institute of Technology Rourkela
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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.
Bengaluru
LM Studio
Microsoft Copilot
OpenAI Playground
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.
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela