Nalin Raj Gupta

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Redmond, Washington, United States12 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led teams to enhance internet application performance.
  • Implemented innovative load balancing solutions.
  • Reduced issue resolution time by 50%.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in cloud services and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipStrategic PlanningSoftware InfrastructureSoftware DesignLoad BalancingNetworkingEngineering

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkASP.NET MVCAnalytical SkillsCC#C++CoachingData AnalysisDistributed SystemsHigh Availability (HA)Incident ManagementJavaJavaScriptLarge Scale SystemsLinux

Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs · On-site

  • I led a team of engineers in the CDN org, focusing on enhancing internet application performance and protecting from DDoS attacks. I supported Microsoft's crown jewels traffic, including Office, LinkedIn, and Teams, with over 20M RPS combined. My responsibilities included leading a team of 12+ engineers, implementing closest routing strategies, and ensuring optimal performance for key services. Through this role, I developed skills in team leadership, project management, and technical problem-solving.
Strategic PlanningCoachingSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Team BuildingIncident ManagementTeam Leadership+3

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2021Mar 2022 · 8 mos · On-site

  • I led the Azure Traffic Manager team to provide load balancing solutions for Microsoft internal and external customers. By setting a clear vision for the team and proposing innovative solutions to increase the utilization for Microsoft CDN capacity, I lead to the growth of the team from 7 to 12 people.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2019Jun 2021 · 2 yrs · On-site

  • I led the development of new features for the Azure Virtual network gateway team, focusing on enhancing monitoring and debuggability for a large number of gateways. I successfully implemented a smart active-active gateway solution to minimize downtime for customers and significantly reduced issue resolution time by 50% through the incorporation of additional metrics.
Software InfrastructureSoftware DesignLarge Scale SystemsIncident Management

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Aug 2016May 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · On-site

  • I worked in the Azure Software Load Balancer (SLB) team, while focused on building a new distributed probing service for availability monitoring for all Azure virtual IPs (VIPs) and backend servers behind them (DIPs). By optimizing threads and request processing pipeline, I increased the throughput of the service by 10x, leading to significant performance improvements.
  • I successfully took this service to public preview with Standard Azure Load balancer sku monitoring 2M+ VIPs.
NetworkingLoad BalancingSystem MonitoringDistributed SystemsSoftware Development.NET Framework+3

Software Engineer

Jul 2013Jul 2016 · 3 yrs · On-site

  • Developed innovative solutions for online code search and open source package consumption using elastic search, and built highly reliable services to enhance developer experience and efficiency within Microsoft.
Software DesignEngineering.NET FrameworkREST APIsTest-Driven DevelopmentSoftware Design Patterns

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Information Technology

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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