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Sandesh S.

Software Engineer 2 | Backend Software Engineer (Distributed Systems, Cloud) | Go, Python, AWS, GCP | Microsoft | Open to Relocation (EU, Australia, Singapore, Dubai)

Hyderabad

5+ years of work experience

Microsoft
Oct 202511 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Backend engineer in the Microsoft 365 Security organization, working on cloud-based systems for security detections and monitoring. • Design and maintain backend services to onboard, update, and manage security detections in ambiguous and evolving scenarios. • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on system design, implementation, and long-term maintainability.
D. E. Shaw India Private Limited
Aug 20241 yr 1 moAug 2025

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Worked on backend systems supporting internal platforms in a performance-critical and reliability-focused environment. • Debugged and resolved critical issues in job scheduling and orchestration algorithms, significantly improving system stability. • Designed and implemented a backend diagnostic platform using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to automate task diagnosis and reduce issue resolution time. • Developed scalable pipelines to ingest and process documentation and operational data into vector databases for efficient retrieval. • Architected a modular, cloud-agnostic backend platform optimized for scalability, extensibility, and maintainability.
Harness
Jul 20231 yr 2 mosAug 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built and maintained backend services for a CI/CD platform used by enterprise customers. • Developed cloud-native infrastructure using Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP. • Led the development of pipeline orchestration and chaining features, improving automation workflows and platform extensibility. • Designed cloud cost management systems that identified and optimized resource usage, reducing infrastructure costs by approximately 25%.
HackerRank
Apr 20221 yr 3 mosJun 2023

Bangalore

• Built and scaled backend services for a global coding assessment platform used by millions of candidates and enterprises. • Developed language servers and IDE infrastructure using Go, Python, and Java to improve developer experience. • Improved system observability and reliability using Prometheus and New Relic, reducing debugging time by 60%. • Optimized BigQuery processing pipelines, reducing data ingestion time from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.
BrowserStack
May 20211 yrApr 2022

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Developed backend features for web and mobile testing platforms used by global engineering teams. • Built email alerting, logging, and error reporting systems to improve production monitoring and incident response. • Implemented caching strategies and robust exception handling, reducing incident resolution time by 65%.
GitHub
@sandeshsalunkhegh

Sandesh’s AI Stack

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Education

Army Institute of Technology (AIT), Pune

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering

Army Institute of Technology (AIT), Pune

20164 yrs2020

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Headline

Software Engineer 2 | Backend Software Engineer (Distributed Systems, Cloud) | Go, Python, AWS, GCP | Microsoft | Open to Relocation (EU, Australia, Singapore, Dubai)

About

Backend software engineer with ~6 years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade backend systems and distributed platforms. I have worked on large-scale, high-reliability systems across organizations including Microsoft, D. E. Shaw, Harness, HackerRank, BrowserStack, and Avalara, contributing to backend APIs, developer platforms, and cloud-native services used at global scale. My experience includes building and maintaining backend infrastructure for coding assessment and interview platforms, developing language servers and IDE-related systems, and improving system reliability and observability in production environments. I have strong hands-on experience with backend engineering and system design using Go (Golang), Python, Java, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD, and observability tools such as Prometheus and New Relic. I enjoy solving complex backend problems, improving performance and operational stability, and collaborating across teams to deliver reliable and scalable systems. Open to backend, platform engineering roles with relocation or visa sponsorship in Europe, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, Dubai and UAE.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

antigravity

codex

cursor

Work experience

Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Backend engineer in the Microsoft 365 Security organization, working on cloud-based systems for security detections and monitoring. • Design and maintain backend services to onboard, update, and manage security detections in ambiguous and evolving scenarios. • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on system design, implementation, and long-term maintainability.

Senior Member Technical at D. E. Shaw India Private Limited, Aug 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, • Worked on backend systems supporting internal platforms in a performance-critical and reliability-focused environment. • Debugged and resolved critical issues in job scheduling and orchestration algorithms, significantly improving system stability. • Designed and implemented a backend diagnostic platform using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to automate task diagnosis and reduce issue resolution time. • Developed scalable pipelines to ingest and process documentation and operational data into vector databases for efficient retrieval. • Architected a modular, cloud-agnostic backend platform optimized for scalability, extensibility, and maintainability.

Senior Software Engineer at Harness, Jul 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Built and maintained backend services for a CI/CD platform used by enterprise customers. • Developed cloud-native infrastructure using Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, and GCP. • Led the development of pipeline orchestration and chaining features, improving automation workflows and platform extensibility. • Designed cloud cost management systems that identified and optimized resource usage, reducing infrastructure costs by approximately 25%.

SDE - 2 at HackerRank, Apr 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore, • Built and scaled backend services for a global coding assessment platform used by millions of candidates and enterprises. • Developed language servers and IDE infrastructure using Go, Python, and Java to improve developer experience. • Improved system observability and reliability using Prometheus and New Relic, reducing debugging time by 60%. • Optimized BigQuery processing pipelines, reducing data ingestion time from 15 minutes to 5 minutes.

Software Engineer at BrowserStack, May 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Developed backend features for web and mobile testing platforms used by global engineering teams. • Built email alerting, logging, and error reporting systems to improve production monitoring and incident response. • Implemented caching strategies and robust exception handling, reducing incident resolution time by 65%.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Army Institute of Technology (AIT), Pune

Public links

github: https://github.com/sandeshsalunkhegh