Paawan Kohli

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India5 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable cloud applications
Mentored interns and contributed to open-source projects
Recognized for technical excellence at Microsoft

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in scalable application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructurePerformance OptimizationCloud SolutionsContainerizationCloud MigrationInfrastructure Development

Other Skills

Application GatewayAzure SolutionsBashCC#C++CentOSCloudDockerGolangKubernetesLinuxMonitoring and Metric ToolsPerlPowershell

About

I'm passionate about building scalable cloud based applications and infrastructure that powers enterprises operating at massive scale. Since completing my B. Tech in CSE from Manipal Institute of Technology, I have been working at Microsoft, as a of the Azure Application Gateway team, where I've had the privilege of architecting solutions that serve hundreds of thousands of deployments and support Fortune 500 companies. Solving complex technical challenges that have real business impact has been driving me, I thrive on turning ambitious ideas into reliable, production-ready systems. Beyond the code: I believe in growing together. I've mentored interns, contributed to open-source projects with 650+ GitHub stars, and earned recognition for technical excellence. Always excited to connect with fellow engineers, discuss cloud challenges, or explore collaboration opportunities.

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Software Engineer II

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Software Engineer

Jul 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Building Azure Application Gateway
During my time at Azure, I have worked on:
Large-scale cloud platform migrations and modernization
Performance optimization and capacity planning for enterprise workloads
Infrastructure monitoring, alerting, and synthetic testing
Open-source contributions (web proxy modules, K8 controllers, etc)|
Tech: C#, C, Monitoring and Metric Tools, SQL, perl, Python, Powershell, Bash, Shell Scripting, Linux

C#CMonitoring and Metric ToolsSQLPerlPython+6

Software Engineer

Jan 2022 – Jun 2022 · 5 mos

As an intern, I worked on Azure Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) where I worked on adding customer facing features such as URL and header CRUD.
Tech: Golang, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Solutions, Application Gateway

GolangC#DockerKubernetesAzure SolutionsApplication Gateway+2

Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Team - Azure Migrate
Developed tools to help customers plan their move to Azure from on-prem/other CSPs setups
Tech stack: Golang, C++, Docker, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Windows

GolangC++DockerCentOSRed Hat Enterprise LinuxUbuntu+3