Abhra Basak

Senior Software Engineer

Bellevue, Washington, United States11 yrs 5 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in full stack development with a focus on Microsoft technologies.
  • Led significant projects in data analytics and AI at Microsoft.
  • Strong background in cloud computing and enterprise architecture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full Stack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Healthcare solutions.

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Core Skills

C#Power BiDistributed SystemsBusiness IntelligenceArtificial IntelligenceComputer VisionNatural Language Processing (nlp)Web Development

Other Skills

3D GraphicsASP.NETApache SparkAzure Analysis ServicesAzure Bot ServiceAzure Cognitive ServicesAzure Cosmos DBAzure Data ExplorerAzure Data FactoryAzure Data LakeAzure DatabricksAzure FunctionsAzure IoTAzure Logic AppsAzure Storage

About

I am a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Microsoft. I enjoy Electronic Music, Football, DJing, Food Festivals and Drawing Cartoons. My professional interests include Data Visualization, Interaction Design, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, and Mixed Reality.

Experience

11 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
11 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
11 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

8 roles

Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Viva Insights - Generative Insights

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos

Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Viva Insights - Interactive Exploration Services

Promoted

Sep 2021Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • @stackshare:abhra/viva-insights
  • 📊 Embedded Power BI Visuals - Architected and Implemented an end-to-end foundation for embedding Power BI reports using the Fabric REST API and JS SDK. Unlocking Power BI embedded visuals obviated the engineering cost of JavaScript-based custom visuals, making us the first Microsoft product to scale Embedded Power BI to 15 distinct product scenarios within 3 months. Extended the platform to support out-of-box Instant reports and Customizable reports within the next 12 months across 22 Azure regions in 12 international locales.
  • 💡 Viva Insights Connector & Analysis Services - Consulted on the migration of Insights data store from Azure Analysis Services (PaaS) to Fabric Semantic Models (SaaS), reducing compute and storage costs by 50% while maintaining availability and reliability above 99.95%. Led the engineering effort to introduce 15 new advanced aggregation capabilities in the Power BI connector, accelerating the development of out-of-box templates.
  • 💫 Infrastructure Remodeling - Transformed 12+ distributed workflows from poll-based to event-based architecture, reducing latency and compute costs. Designed automated lifecycle workflows to purge stale, invalid visualizations, according to regulatory compliance requirements, reducing storage costs. Implemented a targeted observability approach with custom metrics and alerting to detect anomalies in provisioning.
  • 💠 Cross-referencing Organizational Data - Architected the foundational capability of users to cross-reference Viva Insights visuals with external organizational business outcomes.
C#Power BIArtificial IntelligenceUser Experience (UX)GitReact+16

Software Development Engineer 2 - Microsoft Viva Insights - Interactive Exploration Services

Mar 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • @stackshare:abhra/viva-insights
  • 📊 Advanced Analytics and Teams Integration - Designed custom analytics accelerators for performing advanced behavioral analytics on Microsoft 365 data - including Productivity Insights, Organizational Network Analysis, Business Process Explorer, Workspace Planning, Customer Relationship Intelligence, and other early-stage technical incubations. Developed integrations of analytics views and intelligent agents with Microsoft Teams Platform, increasing the integration of analytics directly in employees’ daily workflows.
  • 🔮 Integration Standards Development - Pioneered comprehensive standards and best practices for API design, scenario testing, and Azure enterprise integration. Collaborated with domain experts to scope and validate new solutions, proofs of concept, and technical action plans, driving significant product improvements.
  • 🌏 Reports Internationalization - Engineered a Power BI template internationalization SDK supporting 12 international languages based on Tabular Object Model and OpenXML, drastically improving accessibility and utility of analytics insights for international enterprise customers.
C#Power BIJavaScriptArtificial IntelligenceUser Experience (UX)Git+17

Software Development Engineer 2 - Azure Storage - Serverless File Shares

Sep 2019Feb 2020 · 5 mos

  • 🟢 Runtime State Inspection - Developed administrative inspection scripts for Windows Debugger to expose critical runtime state information, and granular administration of file handles and operations, while maintaining Azure Files service stability. Improve inner loop efficiency by implementing auto-mount of builds to test Azure Files on an Hyper-V images.
  • ☢ Incident Triage - Implemented distributed tracing and profiling capabilities for comprehensive monitoring of file operations. Served as On-call Engineer for prompt triage and resolution of enterprise integration bugs.
C#GitC++Distributed SystemsCPowershell+2

Software Development Engineer 2 - Microsoft Cloud for Industry - Data Fabric & Health Data Services

Jan 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • @stackshare:abhra/azure-industry
  • 📊 Unified Analytics Platform - Designed the foundational industry-Agnostic capabilities of Data Integration, Configuration, Security, Provenance, Monitoring and Telemetry using Azure Core services and Microsoft Power Platform. Extended the foundations with industry-specific accelerators and data transformations using Common Data Model.
  • 🧑‍⚕️ Healthcare Data Platform - Engineered a Massively Scalable Data Analytics Pipeline facilitating Structured Streaming, Orchestration Workflows, Rich Interactive Querying & Clinical Reasoning using Azure Data Platform and Dynamics Power Platform. The platform scaled to 50M+ structured Healthcare Data records across heterogeneous formats representing 100K+ patient lives.
  • 🔒 Data Loss Prevention SDK - Spearheaded the development of a HIPAA Safe Harbor Compliant SDK for Electronic Health Records in Azure Cloud and Edge. It supported FHIR, HL7, DICOM and Unstructured Text formats (using Azure Cognitive Services).
  • 🤖 AI Assisted Diagnosis - Pioneered the transformation of Microsoft AI Network for Healthcare solutions through an AI assistant for Early Detection and Remote Screening of Avoidable Blindness. Designed an SDK to evaluate Image Acquisition Quality and detect abnormalities using Medical Image analysis operations, such as Multiple Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. The AI assistant was widely integrated into Retinal Imaging Equipment in healthcare institutions.
  • 📕 Entity Extraction Engine - Prototyped a Text Enhancement Engine for Extraction of Medical Concepts from existing Clinical Narratives facilitating Clinical Decision Support, Personalized Medicine and Population Analytics.
C#PythonArtificial IntelligenceGitBusiness IntelligenceComputer Vision+17

Software Development Engineer 2 - Bing Knowledge & Experiences - Entity Platform

Jun 2017Dec 2017 · 6 mos

  • @stackshare:abhra/bing-entity-experiences
  • 🔂 Knowledge Graph Node Prioritization - Reduced the compute footprint of the graph processing pipeline by 75%, by using a transitive reduction strategy focusing on most significant entity relationships through graph-based priors and attribute inference. Conducted job graph profiling and annotated query plans in Azure Data Lake to identify cost optimization opportunities, while maintaining completeness of critical functionality and integrity of entity relationships.
  • 🔬 Unified Publishing Services Architecture - Unified mainstream and preview graph processing pipelines through a single REST endpoint in Satori Enrichment and Inference Experimentation Portal, accelerating the development agility of data acquisition partners by 60% and reducing integration complexity.
  • 🕹 Core Inference SDK - Engineered declarative reasoners and configuration points to enable a modular, extensible approach to graph inference, reducing the need for custom code integration complexity, and making the platform future-adaptable.
C#Artificial IntelligenceGitBusiness IntelligenceASP.NETJSON+3

Software Development Engineer 2 - Bing Entity Experiences - Whole Page Platform

Sep 2016May 2017 · 8 mos

  • @stackshare:abhra/bing-entity-experiences
  • 💫 Trending Entities - Boosted freshness of category-wise trending entities in Satori Knowledge Fabric by 400%, using trend detection algorithms based on Wikipedia page reputation and browser engagement, significantly accelerating real-time content relevance
  • 📣 Centralized Monitoring Hub - Unified disparate system signals depicting agility, performance and availability into a centralized monitoring dashboard. Orchestrated reliable and rich alerting, automated escalations, granular incident enrichment, providing increased visibility and responsiveness into critical stages through the continuous delivery cycle.
  • 📚 Content Parity - Spearheaded a Content Parity evaluation SDK to efficiently execute continuous validations on ever-changing entity content, scaling across millions of entities. Reduced large scale data and ontology migration times by 75%, while maintaining content quality and integrity.
  • 🌏 Competitive Analysis - Conducted thorough coverage and quality analysis comparing Bing Snapshots experiences to identify content gaps across its international markets. Pioneered the end-to-end enrichment of Snapshot content in Movies, Software, Events and Awards verticals across all Bing surfaces.
C#Power BIArtificial IntelligenceGitBusiness IntelligenceASP.NET+5

Software Development Engineer - Bing Entity Experiences - Whole Page Platform

Jul 2014Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • @stackshare:abhra/bing-entity-experiences
  • 🛰 Entity Experiences Infrastructure - Pioneered the architecture behind release automation, deployment, monitoring and incident response for Entity experiences across 23 international locales, released in Bing.com, Windows 8 Search Charm, Windows 10 Universal Search Bar, Cortana and Bing Mobile
  • 🛠 Snapshot Builder SDK - Engineered 50+ declarative graph transformers for content rendering in the Entity Snapshots SDK, used by partners to publish UX-ready content, supporting the verticals for Movies, Sports, Events, and Health on all Bing surfaces worldwide. Revitalized experiences through analysis of data availability, coverage metrics, and data validation processes.
  • 🛃 Question Answering - Amplified Bing Answers international coverage by 800% through identification, formulation and normalization of queries with question-answering intent, using a generative AI model trained on culture-specific query patterns, combined with localization and spoken language generation for Cortana TTS.
  • 🚦 Ranking and Triggering Models - Modernized the entity models with features from web search metadata, click signals, and user engagement, using FastRank Regression and Classification.
C#JSONAzure Data LakeU-SQLAzure Data FactoryNatural Language Processing (NLP)+1

Satzire web media

Consultant - Full Stack Development

Feb 2014Jul 2014 · 5 mos · India

  • [ JavaScript | Ruby on Rails | Bootstrap ]
  • Designed the Backend Service Architecture integrating REST API feeds, and heuristically conflating and consolidating Career Profiles, from partner sources such as GitHub, StackOverflow, Twitter, LinkedIn, Indeed, Angel.co and SimplyHired.
  • Developed the pipeline for Continuous Integration, Testing and Automated Deployment.
GitCSSRuby on RailsWeb DevelopmentJSONJavaScript+1

It university of copenhagen

Teaching Assistant - Software Engineering & Software Qualities

Aug 2013Nov 2013 · 3 mos · Copenhagen Area, Denmark · Remote

  • Project Mentor for students in the course "Software Engineering and Software Qualities" offered under collaboration of Indian Institute of Technology Mandi and IT University of Copenhagen.
  • Supervised and Evaluated 2 cross-continent teams working on Software Design and Architecture.

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer Intern - Bing Segments - Auto Suggest

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Hyderabad · On-site

  • 🗄 Document Intelligence and Indexing - Designed a scalable knowledge-base mining algorithm to extract and index high-quality, solved questions on Microsoft Support, and catalog extracted articles by product category. Implemented deep-linking and ranking of top solutions into Bing Auto Suggest on matching query intent, significantly reducing time-to-solution for product support queries.
  • 🗣 Query Understanding - Implemented Tech Support query intent and entity extraction using Language Understanding and Intent Service (LUIS). Improved retrieval efficiency by matching query facets against cataloged Microsoft product entities and in-memory Object Store.

Acm, association for computing machinery

Secretary & Treasurer

Dec 2012Nov 2013 · 11 mos · Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

  • Co-Founder of ACM Chapter in IIT Mandi
  • Supervision of Membership Records, Chapter Meetings and Annual Financial Transactions
  • Management of ACM Distinguished Speaker Program in the university

Exodia iit mandi

Web Developer & Social Media Manager

Dec 2011Feb 2012 · 2 mos · Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

  • Developed the official website for the festival, including the online portal for registration and hosted online events.
  • Set up Operations Infrastructure for getting the first ever edition of the website online.
  • Helped publicize the event via social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
  • Led to 500+ visitor registrations from inter-state universities.

Iit mandi

Coordinator and Principal Developer - Website Information and Networks Group

Nov 2010Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India

  • Website Development, Management of Publicly accessible Information and Custom Software Development.
  • Supervised the development, management and operational maintenance of Websites, Applications and IT Services for IIT Mandi.
  • Served as Board Official in the Scientific and Technical Council, IIT Mandi
  • Notable projects include the IIT Mandi Website, Leave Management System for Faculty / Staff, Intranet and Students' Center.
C#PythonJSONRubyNatural Language Processing (NLP)

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

Hariyana Vidya Mandir

High School Graduate — Basic Sciences

Jan 1997Jan 2010

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