Priyankar Raj Gupta

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom8 yrs 8 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in distributed systems and backend development.
  • Proven track record in enhancing software security and performance.
  • Strong mentoring and team collaboration skills.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and AI/Voice Technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed System DesignSoftware DevelopmentBackend DevelopmentSpeech Recognition

Other Skills

C/C++C#JavaPythonData StructuresAlgorithmsSoftware Development Life CycleAgile software developmentDesign patternsDebuggingMultithreadingInter Process CommunicationMemory CorruptionSynchronizationSpeech Signal Processing

About

Software developer with professional experience in distributed systems, application and system software development. Currently working at Microsoft, Hyderabad, India as SWE - 2 in Dev Div org. of azure cloud division. Worked at Qualcomm as a software engineer in connectivity R&D org as a backend engineer. Worked at Nuance communication on speech domain projects and internal cloud integration. I am skilled in C/C++, C#, Javascript, Typescript, Java, python, Data structures, Algorithms, Distributed System design, Software Development life cycle, Agile software development, Design patterns, Debugging issues. I have interest in competitive programming and problem solving and also earned various certificates in coding contests.

Experience

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Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2026Present · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer 2 (L62)

Feb 2025Jan 2026 · 11 mos · Hybrid

Software Engineer 2 (L61)

Dec 2021Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hybrid

  • Part of a Azure PaaS service - Azure cache for Redis, which offer caching solutions.
  • Designed and launched an end-to-end publicly available feature for Redis Enterprise Connection Auditing, enhancing security compliance.
  • Implemented an automated bulk patching system for Redis Enterprise Caches, resolving 90% of patch-related issues and accelerating the process from weeks to just a few days.
  • Successfully migrated the whole Redis Enterprise service (36K cores) from Ubuntu to Azure Linux while ensuring security and performance along with 0% impact on production resources.
  • Established standardized benchmarking using Memtier to guarantee accurate performance assessments across various Redis SKUs.
  • Designed and implemented a distributed mechanism to scale resource provisioning, significantly reducing failure rates during the rapid growth phase of the new product, "Azure Managed Redis"
  • Constructed staging environments across Azure regions, improving team productivity.
  • Released Swagger specifications, REST APIs, SDKs, CLI, and PowerShell interfaces for product rollouts.
  • Experience in managing live site incidents during on-call, and providing root cause analyses to uphold service reliability.
  • Experience in creating metrics, dashboards, and alerts for tracking health, correctness, and growth of each feature delivered, and also general service health.
  • Mentored colleagues/interns and trained team members on Redis Enterprise
C/C++C#JavaPythonData StructuresAlgorithms+6

Qualcomm

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2021Dec 2021 · 1 mo

Software Engineer

Jul 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Worked in backend software development team under connectivity R&D org.
  • Full ownership (feature development and enhancements) of Qualcomm HIDL and HCI (Host Controller Interface) implementation. HIDL module is used by various stacks (Qualcomm stack, Samsung stack, Google's stack etc.).
  • Developed a distributed telemetry solution to monitor issues during updates for millions of smartphones.
  • Experience in debugging and fixing various multithreaded , Inter process communication(IPC),memory corruptions, Synchronization, ANR(Application Not Responding) etc. related issues.
  • Have experience in standalone feature development/enhancements from High Level design
  • discussions to implementation and testing and also in collaborative feature development with internal teams as well as external organization like Google/Samsung.
  • Have experience in reviewing code, reviewing design documents, mentoring and create training
  • material for new joiners.
  • Hands-on debugging and segregating issues by collaborating with multiple teams.
C/C++DebuggingMultithreadingInter Process CommunicationMemory CorruptionSynchronization+1

Nuance communications

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Lucknow Area, India

  • Worked in speech domain projects – Vocon (Nuance’s ASR engine) , VCSA (Vocon Cloud Services Addon) and Vocon High( high level abstraction of Vocon)
  • Worked on development of VCSA (Vocon Cloud Services Addon) component which connects Vocon to Nuance Dragon Cloud services component so that audio info. captured by Vocon from local device can be sent to cloud efficiently and after that various results coming from Cloud can be handled.
  • Worked on development of complex audio scenario consisting of various parameters like the silence state, begin of speech, trailing silence, timeout, confidence threshold, etc.
  • Worked on writing of the functional test cases for VCSA component using Robot framework. Also worked on the system tests development for Vocon High.
  • Worked on development of sample speech recognition applications (embedded and cloud based) which were delivered to client along with Nuance Vocon SDK for various platform like Linux, iOS, Android.
  • Worked on requirements and bug fixing for Nuance’s recognition engine (Vocon).
  • Worked on development of Python API/wrapper over existing C++ code for re-utilization of code and utilized these API to develop python-based sample speech recognition applications.
Speech Signal ProcessingPythonRobot FrameworkSpeech Recognition

Research designs and standards organisation

Summer Trainee

Jun 2016Jul 2016 · 1 mo

Education

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Honor's) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2017

High school (ICSE) and Intermediate (ISC)

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