Ajinkya Kher

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Seattle, WA, USA14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of cloud services for Microsoft Teams.
Innovated messaging infrastructure handling billions of messages daily.
Presented research at an international conference.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer specializing in SaaS with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

.netCloud ComputingFront End TechnologiesAlgorithm Development

Other Skills

cloud servicesmessaging infrastructurescaleresiliencycost efficiencySignalRAngularJSAngular 2.0ReactOrder Management Systemcustom solution proposalsCapacity Analysisgraph theorywireless sensorssensor networks

About

I am a full stack developer, passionate about architecture, efficient problem solving, and process design. I've been working with the development of massive scale communication infrastructure that handles billions of messages a day, leveraging the modern cloud computing platforms. My experience and expertise lies in .NET middle-tier/backend and modern front end frameworks like Angular & React. I love learning and playing with different technologies. I always seek higher challenges and enjoy leadership roles. Check out a podcast I recorded some time back, which is a technical deep dive into 'Building Modern Web Applications using React/Redux/Angular2/RxJs': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f45PR1IW3DY&t=2624s

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2016 – Apr 2022 · 5 yrs 8 mos

I have enjoyed giving back to the society here to the fullest, leading the Microsoft's annual Giving Campaign for our org & championing and raising awareness toward the various local & national/international causes.
I have also been passionately building large scale cloud services in the messaging space, continuously innovating on the scale, resiliency, and cost efficiency aspects of the infrastructure that powers Microsoft Teams & the various customer delighting features that it offers. I am grateful to have been a part of a team that has powered the journey of this little known internally used product to a ubiquitous 270M+ MAU offering that it is today.

cloud servicesmessaging infrastructurescaleresiliencycost efficiency.NET+1

Slalom consulting

Technical Consultant

Sep 2014 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

I developed extensive fantasy football skills here & explored every renowned restaurant in the greater ATL area. I also served as a technical lead & SME for custom development projects for the clients in the greater ATL area including Coca-Cola, The Home Depot, Delta Airlines, McKesson Corporation. I specialized in building custom .NET web apps, SignalR, and front end technologies including AngularJS, Angular 2.0, and React. I also enjoyed leading key requirement gathering, validation, and solution/sales pitch meetings with the client stakeholders.

.NETSignalRAngularJSAngular 2.0Reactfront end technologies

Eze software group

Software Developer

Jul 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

I developed key skills in flag & touch football here and had a blast at Eze's annual holiday events in Boston. I also developed features & lighted up new workflows for Eze's flagship Order Management System. I specialized in custom solution proposals to expedite product interop between the different financial offerings. I vividly recollect being handpicked by the then director to research and close on the WAN communication pipelines to be used by the product.

Order Management Systemcustom solution proposals

Tata consultancy services

2 roles

Summer Intern

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

I worked on the "Capacity Analysis of a Bus Transport System (BTS) using wireless sensors" project, where I developed an algorithm, that given a graph representing bus stops, and a few other input parameters, computes the efficiency of the BTS, measured in terms of average passenger wait time.

Capacity Analysisalgorithm development

Research Intern

Aug 2009 – Apr 2010 · 8 mos · Pune Area, India

I enjoyed the TRDDC campus & the cafeteria food here. The work I did here resulted in an International Publication in the field of wireless sensors & algorithms. The project titled "Efficient algorithms to compute sleep schedules and minimum delay routes in sensor networks" involved developing an algorithm that beat the then best known sleep schedule computing algorithm, reducing the time complexity from O(n^3) to O(n^2). This got presented in the 17th annual international conference of High Performance Computing (HiPC), which made the cut in a forum where acceptance rate is typically at 10-15%.

wireless sensorsalgorithm development