Vikrant Goyal — Software Engineer
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and AI specialist with strong expertise in scalable systems and machine learning.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 9 yrs
Skills
- Cloud Architecture
- Distributed Systems
- Project Management
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Mentoring
- Software Development
- Web Development
Career 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.
Work Experience
Microsoft
Software Engineer 2 (1 yr 3 mos)
Software Engineer 2 (2 yrs 3 mos)
Software Engineer (1 yr)
Data & Applied Scientist (1 yr 5 mos)
Data & Applied Scientist Intern (2 mos)
Mentor | Google Summer of Code 2019 | Redhen Lab (3 mos)
Mentor | Google Code-in 2018 | CCextractor Development (2 mos)
Software Developer | Google Summer of Code 2018 | Red Hen Lab (3 mos)
IIIT Hyderabad
Teaching Assistant (8 mos)
Research Assistant | NLP-MT Lab | Language Technologies Research Center (2 yrs 10 mos)
Qualicure Software Pvt. Ltd.
Software Developer Intern (0 mo)
Doctl
Web Developer (3 mos)
Education
B.Tech (Hons.) + MS by Research at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
at DAV Public School, Patiala