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Archan Das

Senior Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India25 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of experience at Microsoft
  • Filed 6 patents, granted 3
  • Recipient of Gold Star Award
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in cloud solutions and software engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware EngineeringQuality AssuranceSystems DesignSoftware Development

Other Skills

Project ManagementC#C++Architectural DesignWindows AzureDesign PatternsDistributed Systems.NETAgile MethodologiesTest AutomationWinDbgSoftware DesignTest PlanningKernel DriversMSTest

About

I have 17 years of experience in Microsoft India, with more than 10 years’ experience of leading an engineering team. I am currently working in Azure Site Recovery as a Senior Software Engineering Manager. Azure Site Recovery is a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for DRAAS solutions in 2016. I have great hands on experience in all the projects that I have worked on. I have filed 6 patents and have been granted 3 already. I am also recipient of Gold Star Award early on my career in Microsoft. My goal is to enrich, learn and grow both myself and my team professionally and have fun in the process.

Experience

25 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
25 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
25 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2014Present · 11 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Azure Site recovery (ASR) is a hybrid Azure service which orchestrates automated data center failover in the event of a disaster. The product has been ranked as an leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for DRAAS solutions in 2016.
  • My team will own the client experiences for the above product. This includes Ibiza portal as well as PowerShell and other client components. My team also owns Migration experiences. Migration involves movement of asset from classic infrastructure to the more recent Resource Manager infrastructure. This is also includes migration of the authentication system. Lastly we also own deployment planning solutions across different hyper visor stacks like VMware and Hyper V.
  • I have owned Hyper-V to Azure Scenarios. This is one of the fastest growing scenarios in ASR. As part of this role, I was responsible for service reliability, maintenance, customer issues, and meeting near real time response for the same in above related areas. I was also responsible for new feature requests, ensuring quality for the same and having a smooth role out. My team helped drive reliability numbers close to Azure requirements.
  • I have also owned the onboarding experiences across these stacks. The success criteria is to make customers successful in getting their assets protected in the least possible time and with maximum reliability. Onboarding includes on premise infra structure as well and thus the challenge to learn, fix and iterate very fast on premise components as well to be able to achieve the above goal.
Project ManagementC#C++Architectural DesignWindows AzureDesign Patterns+6

Senior Test Lead

Jul 2012Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Was responsible for building and extending the engineering services for quality assurance for a component in Azure platform. The project included its own challenges as the same focus with respect to reliability, re-usability and efficiency were considered in building this platform.
Project ManagementTest AutomationAgile MethodologiesSoftware EngineeringQuality Assurance

Senior Dev Lead

Promoted

May 2007Jun 2012 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked on core Windows operating system components, involving internet traffic including HTTPS, UDP, etc, authentication protocols, load balancing concepts, etc. Have patent applications as below:
  • Span Out Load Balancing Model
  • US 20120331300 A1
  • Remote Presentation Session Connectionless Oriented Channel Broker
  • US 20120331032 A1
C#C++Architectural DesignDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringSystems Design

Software Developer

Jul 2000Apr 2007 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked on multiple Windows operating components including file server protocols, telephony protocols, etc. Have patent applications as below:
  • Host controlled user interface
  • US 7770121 B2
  • Enhanced addressing for fax recipients
  • US 8077855 B2
  • Enhanced facsimile handling
  • US 20080252933 A1
  • System and method for modifying a host user interface
  • US 20050091641 A1
C#C++Architectural DesignSoftware DevelopmentSystems Design

Education

IIEST, Shibpur

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 1996Jan 2000

Calcutta Boys' School

ICSE + ISC

Jan 1983Jan 1996

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