Vikrant Goyal

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led redesign of SQL DB service improving scalability by 300x.
  • Mentored students in Google Summer of Code and Code-in.
  • Published research on machine translation accuracy improvements.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI specialist with strong expertise in scalable systems and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ArchitectureDistributed SystemsProject ManagementMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingMentoringSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

Microsoft AzureService FabricContainerizationCrowd IntelligenceAzure ComputeMachine TranslationNLPLanguage SupportOpen-source ProjectsResearchTask CreationReinforcement LearningData Transfer AutomationPythonBackend Development

About

I am a strong engineering professional with a B.Tech and Masters by Research in Computer Science from IIIT Hyderabad, with published research demonstrating depth in systems and applied computer science. Early in my career, I completed Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as an undergraduate and later served as a GSoC and Google Code‑In mentor, showcasing leadership, technical project management, and community contribution. With 6 years of experience as a Software Engineer at Microsoft, I have worked across the design, development, and delivery of high‑impact features and cloud‑scale systems. I specialize in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and secure, scalable service design. Currently, as part of the Azure SQL DB team, I am leading the next‑generation redesign of the SQL DB Import/Export service, driving its migration from a legacy Service Fabric–based system to a modern, serverless, container‑native architecture on Azure Container Instances. This transformation improves scalability by ~300×, eliminates 80% underutilized COGs, reduces recurring operational costs, significantly boosts reliability and performance, and enables support for much larger databases up to 25 TB — delivering a dramatically improved customer experience. I have consistently demonstrated the ability to lead complex, large‑scale projects, architect systems from the ground up, deliver iterative improvements, and uphold engineering excellence. My work reflects a balance of hands‑on implementation, long‑term architectural thinking, and research‑grounded problem‑solving.

Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Software Engineer 2

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • As part of the Azure SQL DB team, I’m leading the next‑generation redesign of the SQL DB Import/Export service by migrating it from legacy Service Fabric infrastructure to a modern, serverless, container‑based architecture on Azure Container Instances. This transformation boosts scalability by nearly 300×, eliminates 80% of underutilized COGs, reduces recurring operational costs, and significantly improves reliability and performance—while enabling support for much larger databases up to 25 TB, delivering a far better customer experience.
Microsoft AzureCloud ArchitectureService FabricContainerizationDistributed Systems

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Sep 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Worked in Bing Platform team as a founding member for building a new Crowd Intelligence Platform aimed at improving the user-perceived quality of Microsoft AI products like Bing, MSN, Edge etc. I lead the work on bootstrapping critical workloads of the product on an internal platform ensuring faster delivery and then later lead the migration of the same to Azure Compute ensuring minimal downtime.
Crowd IntelligenceAzure ComputeProject ManagementCloud Architecture

Software Engineer

Sep 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr

  • Working in the Bing Platform team.

Data & Applied Scientist

Apr 2020Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Worked in the Microsoft Bing Translation team improving Machine Translation accuracy for Indian languages and added support for new languages. I also worked on critical projects on improving Transliteration Accuracy from 40% to 80-90% range for most of the Indian languages that we support.
Machine TranslationNLPLanguage SupportMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

Data & Applied Scientist Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • I worked in the Bing Machine Translation Team of the Search Technology Centre India (STCI), Microsoft R&D India.
  • Got my internship work accepted as a research paper in the Microsoft's annual AI & ML conference MLADS-SYNAPSE 2019 & was judged as the Best Intern Poster Award.
Machine TranslationResearchMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

Google

3 roles

Mentor | Google Summer of Code 2019 | Redhen Lab

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • The job was to mentor University students in their Open-source projects in the Google Summer of Code program funded by Google.
  • I mentored two projects one on OCR for Indian Languages & the other one on creating a Multilingual NLP pipeline for Redhen Lab org.
MentoringOpen-source Projects

Mentor | Google Code-in 2018 | CCextractor Development

Oct 2018Dec 2018 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • 1) The job was to mentor the pre-university students who participate in Google Code-in 2018 across the world.
  • 2) I created tasks which aligns with the AI domain of CCextractor.
  • 3) Some tasks were Automatic text scoring of extracted captions from various News Broadcastes, sentiment analysis of news captions etc.
MentoringTask Creation

Software Developer | Google Summer of Code 2018 | Red Hen Lab

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • I developed a Multilingual Neural Machine Translation system for Red Hen Lab to translate TV news captions extracted from TV News broadcasts. The project is successfully deployed on a High Performance Computing cluster of CWRU.
  • Skills & Technologies Used: NLP, Machine Translation, Reinforcement Learning, Pytorch
Machine TranslationNLPReinforcement LearningMachine LearningNatural Language Processing

Iiit hyderabad

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2017Apr 2018 · 8 mos

Research Assistant | NLP-MT Lab | Language Technologies Research Center

May 2017Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Qualicure software pvt. ltd.

Software Developer Intern

Dec 2016Dec 2016 · 0 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Deliverables for the internship were:
  • 1. Made an Automated pipeline for Data transfer from RCH/MCTS portal to Niramayh (DOCTL) portal using python scripting and scraping.
  • 2. Tracking features for every beneficiary to ensure below,
  • Speedy recovery of High Risk Beneficiaries
  • Timely intervention of medical aid from district headquarters
  • Health workers/facilities (ANM, PHC, CHC) can be held accountable for followup with beneficiary.
  • Skill set: Django, PostgreSQL, python, AngularJS.
Data Transfer AutomationPythonSoftware Development

Doctl

Web Developer

Aug 2016Nov 2016 · 3 mos · Hyderabad, India

  • Developed backend for DOCTL website.
  • Skill-set: Django,Angular JS, PostgreSQL,HTML/CSS
Web DevelopmentBackend Development

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

B.Tech (Hons.) + MS by Research — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2020

DAV Public School, Patiala

Jan 2010Jan 2015

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