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title: "Sambit Sankalp - Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Sambit Sankalp, Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Backend (.NET, Go, Python) & Applied AI | LLM agents, MCP based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes LM Studio, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenAI Playground."
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# Sambit Sankalp on Tal

## 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

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