Niketan Rane

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Architected AI platform adopted by 3000+ engineers.
Reduced PR completion time by nearly 50%.
Awarded for outstanding technical contributions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Senior Software Engineer with expertise in AI and developer productivity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (ai)MonitoringIncident ManagementPythonLog Analysis

Other Skills

Developer experienceC#DjangoGrafanaPython (Programming Language)DockerPostgreSQLBluetooth3GPublic SpeakingTeamworkC++SQLPerlOperating Systems

About

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a focus on AI-powered developer productivity. Built the Microsoft Developer Agent, adopted by 3000+ engineers weekly, cutting PR completion time nearly in half and featured at Microsoft Build 2025. Experienced in large-scale backend systems, ML-driven reviewer recommendation, and incident detection platforms. Passionate about bringing AI and engineering systems together to transform how developers work every day. Graduated from IIIT Allahabad with a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · On-site

● Architected Microsoft Developer Agent - conversational AI platform powered by GPT-4/Azure OpenAI integrated into Teams that automates PR lifecycle management through proactive notifications, status tracking, and intelligent code review using historical reviewer feedback patterns.
● Adopted by 3000+ engineers weekly, reducing the average PR completion time by 47% (173 → 88 Hrs).
● Featured in Microsoft Build 2025 for breakthrough developer productivity innovation.

Machine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Developer experienceC#Python

Software Engineer - 2

Apr 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · On-site

● Built comprehensive PR velocity ecosystem comprising an event-driven C# backend with Cosmos DB, and Semantic Kernel AI assistant serving 2,000+ developers across 250+ global reviewer groups processing 300+ daily PRs.
● Engineered traditional ML-based reviewer assignment with load balancing across geo-distributed teams, scaling hackathon prototype to production and reducing PR turnaround by 12% (198→173 hours).
● Implemented proactive notification system through Teams Bot delivering contextual alerts (build failures, merge-ready, release tracking, author-waiting status) plus batch breach notifications to optimize reviewer engagement.

DjangoMachine LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Developer experienceC#

Software Engineer - 2

Jun 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos · On-site

● Developed dual-dashboard analytics platform: PR Dashboard for reviewers to track pending first reviews vs. approval-ready PRs, and PR Metrics Dashboard displaying team performance percentiles, breach tracking (36-hour SLA), and first response time analytics.
● Designed Teams Nudge system enabling PR authors to tag reviewer group champions through automated Teams posts with @mentions, integrated with DRAFT-first workflow to ensure review-ready code submissions
● Redesigned monitoring architecture for MS Teams infrastructure by implementing aggregate-level metrics and custom alerting platform, eliminating 70% of false alarms from 85% to 15% and improving incident detection time.

MonitoringGrafanaPython (Programming Language)Incident ManagementC#

Qualcomm

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos · On-site

Bluetooth Automation Infra Team BLR
● Built a web application for Bluetooth address management used by 125+ developers across Bluetooth division, eliminating the manual conflicts and accelerating testing workflows through automated address allocations.
● Awarded Qualstar recognition for outstanding technical contribution and business impact.
● Worked on a Python based automation framework for Bluetooth end-to-end log analysis. Looked after a test system infrastructure: commissioning machines and instruments, developing the test framework, developing full stack applications to manage and troubleshoot the grid.

DockerPostgreSQLPython (Programming Language)BluetoothPython

Software Engineer

May 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · On-site

Bluetooth Automation Infra Team BLR
● Developed a Python based automation framework for migrating manual bluetooth test cases to automation, achieving 45% reduction in total test suite execution time.
● Implemented intelligent clustering algorithm to optimise test suite efficiency by grouping similar test cases to reduce redundant runtime.
● Worked on a Python based automation framework for Bluetooth end-to-end log analysis.
● Designed multiple auxiliary server applications and their client interfaces and handled continuous maintenance and troubleshooting to integrate them in said framework.
● Worked actively on database management and optimizations and deployments of applications as containers using Docker.

DockerPostgreSQLPython (Programming Language)BluetoothPython

Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2018 – Apr 2019 · 4 mos · On-site

CRAT SSIM Team HYD
● Led a cross-functional vendor team to scale 3G log parser for expanded test scenarios, improving regression detection accuracy (63 → 85%) through automated checkpoints implementation.
● Worked on automated log analysis framework to capture failures and helped reduced man-hours needed for analysis.
● Designed and maintained Python modules to drive testing effort forward and working closely with engineering teams to review and diagnose reported bugs.

Python (Programming Language)3GLog Analysis

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

CRAT SSIM Team HYD
● Built automated 3G log parser for regression identification using automation, reducing manual analysis by 34%.
● Identified and analyzed multiple failure areas to enhance coverage for legacy UMTS areas from customer integration efforts.
● Worked on Integrated state-machine framework built on Python for end-to-end automated log analysis and decision making to improve the efficiency.

Python (Programming Language)3GLog Analysis