About
I am currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Azure Compute, India. Prior to joining Microsoft India, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Tesla, Cell Software. Prior to joining Tesla, I worked as a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft USA. I worked on the design and development of an Enterprise Cloud Service for the Microsoft Data Governance Platform. This service helps customers to meet the most stringent data compliance and privacy requirements (GDPR) across their entire portfolio of Azure Data Services. It also provides customers with rich and insightful metadata management and asset cataloging capabilities across data stores. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/governance/ I have previously worked as Software Development Engineer at AWS, Seattle. I worked on the design and development of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/eks I was a graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. I graduated in the Spring of 2018. I have specialized in Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture. I worked as Senior Software Engineer at VISA Inc., Austin before joining AWS. I worked on the development of containerized backend in Java/Groovy for Container as a Service (CaaS) framework using Spring Boot, RESTful Services, MongoDB, and Jenkins Pipeline Plugin. I worked in VISA Inc. Bangalore as a Java Developer from July 2015 to July 2016. I have worked on the implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for the Release Engineering team. I have worked on tools like Stash, Jenkins, Docker, Chef, and Zabbix and implemented self-healing solutions for maintaining infrastructure stability. I am interested in Distributed Systems, Algorithms, and Operating Systems. I am an enthusiastic learner and a self-motivated go-getter. I am a people person and a team player which helps me blend in well in different formal and informal groups. I am passionate about intellectual discussions, and I play Table Tennis for pleasure. Email: shaileshsk94@utexas.edu; shaileshsk94@gmail.com
Work experience
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Nov 2025 - Present · 10 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Azure Compute - Azure Resource Mover Team
Senior Software Engineer at Tesla, Sep 2025 - Oct 2025 · 2 mos, Fremont, California, United States, Cell Software Team - Developing software for machines that build Tesla 4680 battery cell.
Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, Sep 2023 - Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Sunnyvale, California, United States
Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft, Mar 2020 - Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Redmond, Washington, United States, Design and development of Microsoft Azure Data Platform Service to provide customers with insightful metadata management, asset cataloging across data stores.
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), May 2019 - Feb 2020 · 10 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Design and development of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
Senior Software Engineer at Visa, Jun 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr, Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, Design and development of scalable Container as a Service(CaaS) framework in Java and Kubernetes orchestration to automate DevOps lifecycle.
Education
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, COEP Technological University
