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title: "Shahbaz Shaik - Software Engineer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Shahbaz Shaik, Exploring SLMs, LLMs. Ex-Microsoft based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes codex, grok, and hermes agent. Explore public work links including github."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/shahbaz-shaik/share-image"
---

# Shahbaz Shaik on Tal

## Headline

Exploring SLMs, LLMs\. Ex\-Microsoft

## About

I am interested in SLMs, finetuning, self hosting, agentic orchestration, LLM Infra, and how SLMs and AI on the edge can change daily workflows, on consumer hardware\. Extremely interested in exploring how coding LLMs affect the potential and scope of Indie game development\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

codex

grok

hermes agent

ollama

opencode

Qwen

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Microsoft India, Jan 2025 \- Mar 2026 · 1 yr 3 mos, \- Built full\-stack features for Tenant Configuration Management \(TCM\) using C\#, \.NET, and PowerShell, contributing across the product lifecycle from development through public preview to GA\. \- Added support for additional Microsoft 365 workloads and resources across Teams, Entra, and Security/Compliance, including related roles, permissions, and resource handling\. \- Improved monitoring and onboarding flows for snapshot and monitoring scenarios, and drove bug fixes and iterative improvements based on testing and customer feedback\.

Software Engineer at Microsoft India, May 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, \- Improved and added to reporting and data delivery workflows for Microsoft Global Cloud Manager for evolving leadership and business reporting requirements\. \- Engineered parts of the data modeling and query layer across Kusto, SQL, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, and related internal tooling to support reliable reporting and downstream visualizations\. \- Collaborated with business teams to build RBAC\-governed pipelines for sensitive Microsoft sales data and improved report consolidation across Power BI and React\-based reporting surfaces\.

Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft, May 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Worked as a software engineer intern at Microsoft Hyderabad, on using browser extensions as metrics to optimise webpage loading and interaction delays using C\#, Javascript, Azure Active Directory, and Microsoft Graph\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech \+ MS in Computer Science, Computer Science, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad \(IIITH\)

High School, Expert PU College

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/2shabby

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