bharath palaksha

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building migration tools for Azure CosmosDB.
Led teams in high-volume data movement projects.
Strong background in cloud computing and database management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a focus on cloud solutions and data engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Database ManagementCloud ComputingData Engineering

Other Skills

Distributed systemsDatabase internalsCloud-scale data movementReliability engineeringSecurity architecturesMongoDBAzureData MigrationData ProcessingReal-time AnalyticsMicroservicesCloud StorageSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsC++

About

Building and leading migration products for globally distributed database service - Azure Cosmosdb

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs

Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos

I lead engineering initiatives focused on building first‑party, large‑scale migration and modernization tooling for Azure DocumentDB (MongoDB compatible), enabling customers to move from self‑managed and Atlas MongoDB deployments to Azure with confidence.
My work spans distributed systems, database internals, cloud-scale data movement, and reliability engineering, with a strong emphasis on:
Designing and building secure, scalable migration frameworks
Solving high‑volume, low‑downtime data movement
Driving security‑first architectures (managed identities, least privilege, enterprise compliance)

Distributed systemsDatabase internalsCloud-scale data movementReliability engineeringSecurity architecturesDatabase Management+1

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Leading Mongo Migrations team
If you are using MongoDB, it's time to switch to Azure CosmosDB using our migration tool
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-data-studio/extensions/azure-cosmos-db-mongodb-migration

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr

Working on Azure Cosmos DB - Migrating MongoDB to Cosmos DB

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Worked on Microsoft Edge browser, specifically PDF rendering. Designed and developed multiple features for PDF loading, rendering and editing.

Walmart labs india

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked on Customer Data Platform which is a single source of truth about walmart customers - both online and offline.It is an intelligent data platform that processes customer activity across markets, programs, devices, apps and to some extent over the Internet, in close to real time, to produce a coherent epitome, that is both representative and predictive.

Intuit

Software Engineer 2

Dec 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked on Financial Data Platform services and mainly contributed to one of the service called Document service.
Document Service is a micro service serving intuit products – QuickBooks, TurboTax and Mint. Document Service enables secure cloud storage and sharing of customer and small business financial documents, such as receipts, tax forms, invoices etc. as well as provisions document management through folder and tagging capabilities.

Hewlett packard enterprise

Software Engineer 2

Jan 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Worked on HP one view (converged infrastructure management system)
HP OneView provides management tools for converged infrastructure and are used by system administrators to provision, control, and manage software-defined data center components. System administrators use one unified interface, HP OneView to automate data center maintenance and management tasks. These data center maintenance and management tasks traditionally required numerous manual steps and multiple management tools.

Infosys

Systems Engineer

Oct 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

Worked on Cisco unified communication manager ( VOIP Private branch exchange). It is a software-based call-processing system developed by Cisco Systems. CUCM tracks all active VoIP network components; these include phones, gateways, conference bridges, transcoding resources, and voicemail boxes among others.