Ritu Lakhotia

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ years of experience at Microsoft
Specialized in scalable backend systems and big data processing
Proven track record in cloud-based analytics platforms

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in backend systems and data analytics.

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Skills

Core Skills

C#AzureWeb Development

Other Skills

Azure Cosmos DBAzure Data Lake AnalyticsAzure Data Lake StorageAzure Analysis ServicesScalaApache SparkLinuxApacheMySQLPHPHTMLCSSREST APIsDistributed SystemsMicroservices

About

Experienced Software Engineer with 10+ years at Microsoft, specializing in scalable backend systems, big data processing, and cloud-based analytics platforms. Proven ability to design and deliver high-impact solutions for products like Microsoft Viva Insights and Kaizala. Skilled in Azure, Spark, microservices, and distributed systems, with multiple patents in workplace analytics and enterprise infrastructure.

Experience

10 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Oct 2024 · 6 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Product - Microsoft Viva Insights (formerly Microsoft Workplace Analytics), a product that analyzes collaboration on the Office 365 platform and provides customers with valuable insights based on that data.
Designed and implemented the persistence layer for a cross-functional personalization framework, enabling dynamic management of user preferences for millions of users.
Developed features for sales productivity analysis, integrating CRM data to generate actionable insights which were used by multiple customers.
Developed metrics and data pipelines on Apache Spark, processing terabytes of M365 signals. This empowers data analysts to uncover key analytical trends, such as organizational behavior patterns, and assists business decision-makers in making data-driven decisions to improve their organization's agility and productivity.
Technologies : C#, .NET, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Analysis Services, Scala, Apache Spark.

C#Azure Cosmos DBAzure Data Lake AnalyticsAzure Data Lake StorageAzure Analysis ServicesScala+2

Engineering

Jun 2013 – Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Kaizala Services Team:
Kaizala is a mobile app for large group communications and work management developed at IDC. The product went GA in July 2017.
Owned the Release and Deployment of all the Kaizala services (hosted on Azure). Developed various engineering tools to facilitate the process.
Worked on making the services O365 compliant and GA ready. This included onboarding the services to OSI (Office Services Infrastructure) platform and integrating them with other services for deployment, secrets management, incident management and telemetry.
Developed various features for the Kaizala Management Portal and implemented new Design Language for its UI.
Core Engineering team for Office WXP(Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Android apps:
Designed and developed Krypton, an in-house Crowd Source Testing incubation platform. This was designed so that idle devices in IDC lab can be utilized for tools/private runs required by any team.
Drove a self-sustained IDC Device lab setup and implemented infrastructure for automation runs.

Ericsson

Intern

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo · Kolkata Area, India

Developed a web based application for auto-generation of CV’s of the employees
Hosted application using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP and front-end using HTML and CSS