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Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

About

Senior Software Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, distributed systems across Windows, enterprise SaaS, and cloud platforms. Leads architecture and modernization initiatives spanning microservices, serverless, and data-driven platforms, with a strong focus on scale, reliability, and extensibility. Strong advocate of data-driven engineering, leveraging telemetry, dashboards, and ML-driven insights to guide architectural decisions, improve reliability, and reduce operational and business costs at scale. Passionate about mentoring engineers, raising engineering standards, and building platforms that enable teams to move faster with confidence.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

github copilot

ollama

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, VIVA GLINT Driving large-scale engineering transformation to empower organizations to improve employee engagement and performance across the entire employee lifecycle through enterprise-grade, organization-wide surveys. Scaled a new platform engineering team from the ground up (8 engineers), owning end-to-end re-architecture of the Viva Glint survey platform for enterprise-wide employee engagement, serving 2000+ organizations. Led design of a resilient, high-performance architecture for large-scale data ingress/egress, prioritizing extensibility to support customer retention and enable a 20% increase in new customer onboarding, driving product revenue growth. Building GlintKit, an internal CLI developer-productivity tool adopted by the team to automate tenant setup for dev, QA, and debugging, cutting environment setup time by 80-90%. Set technical direction and mentored 8 engineers, establishing engineering standards, code refactoring, architectural improvement that reduced incident rate by 80% and established checks, policies in place to improve code review turnaround by 40%.

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Sep 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr, Hyderabad, WINDOWS Scripting Engine, DST, Globalisation Eliminated a critical latency bottleneck in Windows Daylight Saving Time (DST) updates by architecting and driving a new delivery pipeline, cutting update turnaround time by 50%. The improvement reduced the risk of outdated time-zone data and potential time-related disruptions across 70+ countries and a globally deployed Windows device ecosystem.

Software Engineer II at Microsoft, Nov 2019 - Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, BROWSER-Scripting Hardened the reliability and security of Windows scripting engines and browser components serving 300M+ users, mitigating risks in widely deployed legacy components and strengthening the security posture of the Windows ecosystem. Drove a telemetry-based analysis of global scripting-engine dependencies, transforming large-scale production data into actionable insights that shaped the deprecation strategy for legacy engines—reducing operational overhead and delivering multiple millions of dollars in cost savings. Built and deployed a machine learning–based regression-risk prediction model using historical engineering telemetry, PR history enabling proactive identification of high-risk pull requests and reducing regression escapes and manual review effort by 50%.

Developer-Technology at Delhivery, Jun 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Hyderabad, India, Product Development Championed the conceptualization and execution of a cutting-edge Delhivery mid-mile/line haul system, leveraging the power of micro-service architecture to revolutionize operational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and resource optimization. Entrusted with comprehensive ownership of five pivotal components within the planner system: Trip Capacity Service (TCS), Planner Container Service (PCS), Plan as a Service (PAAS), Calculation of Actual and Planned Shipments (CAPS), and the Planner Dashboard. This encompassed end-to-end responsibilities spanning design, development, enhancement, and unwavering support. Tech Stack: Java, Apache Kafka, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, Gradle, Redis, AWS Lambda, Python, RabbitMQ, Celery, Postgres DB, Elastic Search, sentry, supervisor, Nginx, Angular, Linux, etc

Software Developer Engineer at Kony, Inc., Jan 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Hyderabad, India, Product Development Role and Responsibility: To develop services for admin console application which configures the product, services, roles, permissions etc to Kony Retail Banking Application

Software Engineer at KONY Labs, Jan 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Contributed to the development and enhancement of the administrative console application, specializing in configuring product offerings, service modules, role assignments, and access permissions within the sophisticated ecosystem of the Kony retail banking platform.

System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2014 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Hyderabad, India, Application Development Developed Tata Docomo Recharge and postpaid bill payment application, specifically payment integration module with BillDesk which enable fast and smooth revenue collection for Tata Docomo.

Education

Master of Technology, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, indian institute of information technology dharwad

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology