Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Mar 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Geo replication for Premium File Shares:
• · Leading a team of 4 developers to deliver an upgraded Azure Premium Files geo-replication pipeline, supporting high throughput and high-TPS workloads.
• · Defined project goals, roadmap, and feature scope; led semester planning, resource allocation, and design
• reviews; expanded team capacity through hiring and ensured on-time delivery of mission-critical features.
• · Conducted system analysis and resiliency planning for P99 traffic, sustaining 100K TPS and 10+ GBPS per
• share across thousands of file shares at hyperscale.
• · Scaled 4 core components across 3 workloads to achieve 8× TPS and 4× throughput, strengthening enterprise reliability, and partnered with test teams to integrate features into release pipelines.
• Livesite Leader:
• · Managing the cross functional and cross geographical Livesite Auto-Analysis team of 5 engineers, leveraging Microsoft Copilot to create automated incident reports that reduced time-to-analyze and time-to-mitigate, improving overall service health.
• · Delivered 11 auto-analysis reports, 4 Copilot plugins, 5 dashboards, and 2 integrations, saving the team 40
• hours per week in livesite incident analysis and management.

Sep 2020 – Mar 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Livesite Leader
• Brought the concept of Livesite as a Feature to streamline the core knowledge and develop features to systematically bring down the load on the on-call developers.
• Managing a team of 6 developers to work in a fast paced environment to implement features related to livesite with high accuracy, reliability and carefully crafted report.
• Designed a generic approach to create and target different categories of incidents and tackle them at 2 levels, breadth and depth.
• Developed a breadth analysis design to do most common analysis which can cater to large volume of incidents reducing investigation time down to < 5 minutes from multiple hours. Led 2 developers to deliver the project for 2 major incident categories and got buy-in to further expand to more categories.
• Created a depth analysis design to investigate and root cause issues automatically using SME (subject matter expert) knowledge thus reducing incident volume overall. Led 2 developers and 2 SMEs to deliver the analysis for 2 incident categories and got buy in to add coverage for more categories of incidents.
• Exploring machine learning algorithms to handle large volume of available metrics data to automatically cluster and identify new patterns of issues.
• Cross Region Migration feature work
• Collaborated with multiple storage teams to deliver support for cross region migration.
• Changed the authentication mechanism for account migration to support a more global and safe authentication mechanism to allow access of data across regions safely.
• Copy File REST API enhancements
• Designed and implemented changes to Copy API to reduce its impact on geo replication pipeline by converting shallow copy of small files to deep copy.
• Redesigned Create File REST API to support 3 symantics at once, Create, Copy(new) and CreateWithData(new), facilitating easy future support of CreateWithData API helping clients create small files in a single request.

Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr

• Led the project to unify behavior across Azure Storage Services to bring parity in the unicode character set supported by Azure Storage across its offerings.
• Collaborated with product owners of Windows and 8 front ends of Azure Storage, designed the discovery, development and deployment plan and executing it for all services with joint effort.
• Brought changes to Windows network driver character validation logic and deployed it safely across more than 5000 storage tenants using an OS patch without causing any unexpected new behavior for other storage services in a multi-semester, multi-org effort.

Sep 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Spearheaded the design and implementation of new APIs in Azure Files repo to copy File ranges from another source and Batch API based on OData guidelines. API is written for an infra that handles billions of requests per hour.
• Designed a backup solution for newly released Azure File Shares. Working on problems to support multiple File systems, with handling for 100s of millions of Files and shares of size upto 100TB with browse and File level restore capabilities.
• Improved the performance and consistency of the Azure Files restore by identifying bottlenecks in multiple systems such as Azure Files Backup, Data Movement Library and Azure Files APIs. Improved the performance from an inconsistent 5-40 files per second to consistent 150 files per second and complete use of available bandwidth from an Azure File Share to increase support from 5TB to 100TB file share restore.
• Led a team of 7 engineers to deliver diverse solutions such as new backup management experience, performance improvements in restore, auto-upgrade of on-premise backup agents, switch to cheaper storage formats and new ways to protect data for customers with large amount data (10s to 100s of TB)
• Developed Azure Backup plugin for Microsoft Windows Admin Center for quick and easy on-boarding for new customers and management at scale.
• Received 2 organization awards for Collaboration and Innovation.

Jul 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Developed Enterprise level cloud backup solutions to backup data locally and in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Product handles 7,00,000 backups from 1,80,000 systems every week supporting up to 54 TB backup from single source.
• Product works standalone and with Microsoft Azure Backup Server to protect files, Windows System State, databases, VMs and Exchange server.
• Shipped Microsoft Azure Backup Server V1.
• Shipped backup agent upgrades every 6 weeks.
• Bug Fixes: Fixed major bugs involving file streams, virtual disk service, vhd & file system, multi-threading bugs, anti-virus conflicts and legacy OS support.
• Feature: Added support for multiple backup schedule and retention policy for different data sources.
• Feature: Added support for Direct-2-Cloud Windows System State backup and restore for Server OS 2008 R2 and above.
• Feature: Ransomware Protection: Added multi-factor authorization for critical backup operations like passphrase change and delete backups. Added feature to maintain minimum safe retention policy and re-protect deleted data.
• Feature: Added Azure Authentication Directory (AAD) based authentication support to move forward from deprecated ACS authentication.
• Incentive: Took ownership of Offline Seeding feature. Prepared a get-well plan. Wrote a tool to automate manual steps.
• Incentive: Wrote a tool to do integrity check of data before customer ships any backup disk to Azure data-centers to avoid sending bad/corrupt data.
• Impact: Backup success rate increased from 95% to 99.6%.
• Impact: Product registered 2nd highest Month-over-Month growth in Feb 2017 due to AAD support added for new Azure regions.
• Impact: 5500 machines started protecting Windows System State even before general availability (GA) of feature.
• Got 2 promotions in 2 years. Received three organization awards for Collaboration, Customer Obsession and Data Driven decision making for success rate improvements.