Sep 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Currently, working as a Senior Software Design Engineer in the Universal Store team.
• The team is responsible for ingesting content ranging from Apps, Games and Hardware Drivers and IoT packages
• Owning end to end architecture and design of global Windows Driver Signing services for Microsoft partners
• Leading the effort to create and manage scalable, reliable, and performant cloud based RESTful services used for automating Driver and App certification across windows ecosystem
• With my expertise in Micro-Services/Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), I am also leading the effort to migrate legacy system to cloud based web services without disrupting customer experience
• Reviewing design and implementation to ensure long term success of the services using agile methodologies with primary focus on high customer satisfaction
• Incorporating the culture of creating quality code by introducing code analysis tools and guiding the team to improve code quality, reliability and maintainability throughout the coding cycle. This has led to cost optimization and improved customer satisfaction
• Interacting regularly with customers to identify and prioritize the next set of features for the team
• Managing project timelines, planning scrum sessions, assigning work items during sprint cycles in accordance to the skill set, reviewing and reporting the progress to leadership
• Recruiting new team members and mentoring them to take on more responsibilities

Jul 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Worked as a Software Design Engineer (SDE-II) in the XBox MVR (Music, Video & Reading) team
• Designed and implemented Content Production Tool that is used by artists and content owners to publish music stems to Microsoft
• Prototyped and chose the best-fit technologies to design and implement the Warhol service. This service allows users of Microsoft Surface Music Kit to publish their remix content and share it with other users
• Proposed and implemented an extensible architecture with an efficient design for the features I owned, leading to shorter development cycle and sustainable service
• Gained expertise in REST, WebAPI, Azure Storage and Azure Active Directory
• Took initiative to implement and setup static code analysis tools (FxCop and StyleCop) to be run as part of the build system
• Put together a knowledge repository on coding guidelines to educate the team and new members to ensure high coding standards
• Lead cross-discipline collaboration scrum meetings to correctly identify and prioritize the customer requirements in the product backlog

Jul 2008 – Jun 2013 · 4 yrs 11 mos

• Worked as a Software Design Engineer in the BizTalk & Integration Services team
• Owned BizTalk developer tools, namely BizTalk Schema Editor, Pipeline Designer, Orchestration Designer, Build System and BizTalk project system. These were critical components that enabled successful launch of BizTalk 2010 and BizTalk2013 (a B2B communication platform)
• For Integration services on Azure, I was responsible for designing and developing the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Visual Studio based Project System. The Bridge Configuration User Interface and the Build System, key components of EAI, help the user configure the hosted bridge for his application and ensure that the user uploads a valid configuration. The Bridge configuration UI is a Windows Presentation Foundation based editor inside Visual Studio. My work here was focused on designing and developing Visual Studio based developer tools and this gave me an opportunity to develop in-depth understanding of technologies namely, C#, WF (Windows Workflows), Visual Studio, MSBuild, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and WIX (Windows Installer XML)
• I also designed features for Windows Azure runtime where Workflow (WF) as a service gets hosted on cloud and the customer can upload configurations and send SOAP messages to be processed and routed
• Graduated to become technology expert and a one-point contact for Visual Studio extensibility, MSBuild and UI designs, and implementation
• Owned all the components of Developer Tools for BizTalk and designed critical Developer Tools components for the feature Integration as a service – this also involved getting the key features delivered on time and addressing customer issues

Jul 2005 – Jun 2006 · 11 mos

• Worked as a R&D Engineer and was responsible for digital hardware design and programming in embedded C. OrCAD schematic capture tool was used for designing the hardware and the software was developed in the Keil Compiler
• Software development of ISP protocol for programming P89x51RD2 series of microcontrollers. It is a compact programmer, the size of a pen drive, for on-site software update of the existing systems
• Development of software for solid state AC voltage regulator. The software had a response time reduced to one cycle of an AC voltage signal
• Designed Hot Standby Box to manage power output of two UPS and AC mains using controller AT4051
• Designed C51 core based hardware platform and real time application development in C