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title: "Srikrishna Gandluru - Software Engineer 2 in Hyderabad | Tal"
description: "Meet Srikrishna Gandluru, SDE II @ Microsoft | Ex-Ally.io | IIITian based in Hyderabad. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and github copilot."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/srikrishna/share-image"
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# Srikrishna Gandluru on Tal

## Headline

SDE II @ Microsoft \| Ex\-Ally\.io \| IIITian

## About

I’m a Software Engineer with about 5 years of experience working across a bunch of different tech stacks—Ruby on Rails, , \.NET, React, Angular, and currently working as an Android developer at Microsoft\. Having worked at both startups and in big tech, I’ve had the chance to explore a wide range of technologies and dive into all kinds of codebases to get things done\. That mix has taught me to be adaptable, pick things up quickly, and focus on solving real problems\. I’m curious, open to change, enjoy learning new stuff, and always trying to get better with every project\.

## Location

Hyderabad

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

github copilot

mcp

## Work experience

Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, Sep 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid, Viva goals: \- Involved in designing and implementing notification systems for OKRs to enhance user engagement\. M365 Copilot android app: \- Contributed to building dashboards for Copilot chat\. \- Part of the revamped search experience for the M365 Copilot Android app\. \- Integrating Azure Notification Hub \(IRIS\) with M365 copilot app

Software Engineer at Microsoft, Nov 2021 \- Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid, Joined Microsoft as part of the Ally\.io acquisition\. Viva Goals: \- Contributed to Firestore to Pub/Sub migration, supporting Ally\.io’s integration into Microsoft\. \- Migrated IDs to UUIDs across data models, focusing on security and maintaining cache integrity\. \- Helped develop the Viva Goals 3P app for Azure DevOps\. \- Owned search revamp and query indexing optimization, resulting in improved click\-through rates\. \- Supported delivery of supporting custom terminologies for OKRs, involving extensive code changes \(1000\+ files PR\), testing and keeping it mostly bug free when it was rolled out\. \- Part of Viva Goals platform revamp, co\-owned the backend implementation for OKRs management, leveraging GraphQL and ASP\.NET for scalable backend solutions\.

Software Engineer at Ally\.io \(Acquired by Microsoft\), Aug 2020 \- Nov 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Worked with the Product\-Led Growth team: \- Developed and managed the Pendo integration, which is used to enhance First Run Experience \(FRE\) and driving user adoption\. \- Built the OKR Universe, enabling users to create OKRs from scratch using customizable templates\. \- Designed and shipped the Collaboration Board, where multiple users could collaborate to plan and publish OKRs \- Worked on angular\.js to react\.js migration initiatives in ally\.io

Machine Learning Intern at Corteva Agriscience, Jun 2019 \- Oct 2019 · 5 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, \- Worked on state\-of\-the\-art Computer Vision and Deep Learning problems in agriscience\. \- Made use of CNN, U\-Net architectures to segment unhealthy soybean leaves\. \- Used techniques like Data augmentation to work with limited data and Hyperparameter optimisation to optimise the Deep Learning model\.

Software Engineer Intern at GAVS Technologies, May 2018 \- Jul 2018 · 3 mos, Chennai Area, India, \- Worked in the field of automation and networking\. \- Studied and customised ntop \(open source network monitoring software\), worked with big data technologies like elastic\-search, Kafka\.

## Education

Dual Degree, Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram

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