Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Building Microsoft Planner, a unified work management experience.
• Contributed as part of the core architecture team to design and build the new unified Microsoft Planner experience in Teams from the ground up.
• Led multiple performance initiatives that significantly reduced app load times, enhanced responsiveness, and delivered a smoother, more engaging user experience.
• Independently owned the redesign and end‑to‑end implementation of the Planner App’s critical boot architecture, applying advanced profiling, lazy loading, and optimized dependency management to minimize critical‑path execution. Achieved a 25% faster P95 boot latency, significantly enhancing user experience.
• Designed and implemented a high-resolution performance monitoring framework for Microsoft Planner, enabling end-to-end visibility into app lifecycle timings. Built a regression detection pipeline that analyzes app bundles and load latency, proactively identifying issues early in the development cycle and improving release stability.
• Spearheaded an 8+ member engineering team in a large-scale revamp of the Planner core, improving scalability, reducing technical debt, and accelerating the pace of new feature delivery
• Owned full lifecycle delivery of several core Planner features, driving architectural excellence and cross-functional collaboration.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Worked on Microsoft To Do for Apple platforms, delivering new features, improving reliability, and driving cross-team engineering initiatives.
• Led a multi‑quarter initiative to improve synchronization reliability of Apple To Do clients, collaborating with services and cross‑functional client teams. Defined a new sync score metric to measure reliability, re‑architected the sync layer, introduced advanced analytics, built error‑handling mechanisms and real‑time error alerts. Designed and implemented background sync tasks for Apple clients, achieving a 35% increase in sync score, 80% reduction in user‑reported sync issues, and a 50+ point boost in NPS.
• Orchestrated cross-team collaboration to establish code-sharing frameworks across native To Do applications, accelerating development velocity and boosting overall engineering productivity.
• Contributed to the design and end-to-end development of several new features and pipelines, elevating the productivity app experience for millions of users worldwide.