Feb 2020 – Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Microsoft 365 (M365) stands as a prominent global enterprise and consumer cloud service, offering world-class security services for a myriad of Microsoft products and services. The Red and Blue Security teams diligently identify security vulnerabilities, while the Green team engineers systematic solutions by deploying sweepers, automating incident responses, and fostering effective communication with relevant teams. To operationalize these efforts, we have developed key performance indicators (KPIs) and tools, predominantly in C#, enabling data-driven actions to remediate vulnerabilities and enhance system security. The technical toolkit encompasses components integral to the "Security Development Lifecycle," including ARROW, POP, CR, Roslyn Analyzers, CredentialScanner, along with specialized tools addressing various vulnerabilities such as High-risk Open ports identification tools and Migration tools for secure subscription transitions.
• Responsibilities:
• Threat Analysis and Data Scope: Thoroughly analyze threat vectors and define the data scope to assess potential risks comprehensively.
• Security Goals Planning: Develop plans for both short-term and long-term goals, implementing programs like "Get Green" and "Stay Green" to systematically address security issues.
• Secure Design Principles: Drive the adoption of Secure Design principles, emphasizing strategies like minimizing attack surface area and enforcing the principle of least privilege.
• Architecting Design and Development for security tools: Architecting and helping the teams in the design and development of tools and solutions, ensuring alignment with best practices in security.
• Strategic Team Leadership: Spearhead the leadership of multiple Software Engineering (SWE) and vendor teams, orchestrating the efforts of diverse Feature Crews.
• Strategic Planning: Contribute to strategic planning, aligning team objectives with overarching organizational goals to drive successful project outcomes.

Sep 2016 – Feb 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• The HR and Finance applications at Microsoft exhibit a high degree of complexity, given the diverse tax forms and regulations specific to each country and region. With Microsoft's global presence spanning most countries, the applications must seamlessly support all geo-locations, ensuring smooth transfers between different regions.
• Responsibilities:
• Architectural Leadership: Drive the architecture of the Next Generation Data Lake and Business Intelligence (BI) Platform specifically tailored for HR applications.
• Application Development: Spearhead the development of the Rewards application, incorporating design enhancements for Recruiting applications to seamlessly interface with third-party applications like ICMS and internal Microsoft applications.
• Process Simplification: Successfully simplified the My Order application, streamlining the process of creating internal orders for Microsoft Business.
• Team Leadership: Lead multiple Software Engineering (SWE) and vendor teams, each comprising two Feature Crews. One crew is dedicated to constructing backend rules engine applications, while the other focuses on developing Full Stack App Services for Microsoft Business.

Sep 2013 – Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Worked on Professional service applications. Microsoft uses 3rd party application ChangePoint for contract and project creation for Professional services, Resource Management and Time tracking are custom applications created by Microsoft. Managed big vendor team for these applications, which also taught me learning on managing team on different Geo and different external companies at the same time.

Oct 2010 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Worked on product key life cycle applications like product key configuration, generation of product keys, activation of product keys and finally blocking of misused product keys. Worked closely with OEM partners for pre activating OS for laptops and releasing OEM product keys and specific usage guidelines for OEM systems.

Mar 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Worked on Product key block application. when a product key misused / misplaced by customers, this application blocks key for further activation. Microsoft anti piracy team evaluates product key activation history and based on patterns of usage, team will block those keys using PID block functionality.

Nov 2006 – Feb 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Worked on Product activation application, which activates all Microsoft products like Windows, Office, Enterprise application. Activation can be online and offline, so we have built different encryption method to secure implementation and help end customer to reach Microsoft for activation. This application learnt me on designing high scale and high availability.

Jan 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on projects which consists for large data volume related to financial services provided by Thomson Financial group.

Oct 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

• Worked on multiple projects like Torto wheton research (Moodies sister company at that time) and Kanisa, which is content management system and once of the client was Microsoft at that time.

May 2001 – Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

• Career Started with Infix Solution as .NET developer and worked on multiple programs like Purchase Order processing, Customer Order Processing,