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Dipesh Bhakat

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Kolkata, West Bengal, India12 yrs 7 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Led AI strategy at Microsoft, driving revenue growth.
  • Built AI-powered products showcasing real-world solutions.
  • Achieved significant cost savings through automation.
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Skills

Core Skills

Microsoft AzureLeadershipArtificial Intelligence (ai)

Other Skills

GitC#LangChainRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)AIAutomationCC++JavaScriptCRMData StructuresDatabasesCore JavaAlgorithmsOracle SQL Developer

About

(All posts & views are my own and do not reflect those of my employer) I am a seasoned Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, specializing in scalable cloud platforms, AI-driven automation, and distributed systems. Currently at Microsoft, I lead the development of intelligent systems and platforms that accelerate partner onboarding, deliver measurable cost savings, and drive engineering excellence through automation. Beyond my role, I’ve built and deployed two AI-powered personal products (available in my profile’s Featured section) that showcase my passion for leveraging AI to solve real-world problems and creating accessible technology with free-tier adoption. Some recent highlights include: Integrating observability partners into Azure Marketplace, expanding the ecosystem. Deploying AI-powered agents that enhance engineering workflows and improve operational efficiency. I thrive at the intersection of technology, strategy, and collaboration, bringing teams together to design adaptive, resilient platforms that empower organizations to innovate at scale. Passionate about mentorship, applied machine learning, and intelligent automation, I aim to continuously push the boundaries of what’s possible in building the future of software.

Experience

12 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Sonetel

AI Engineering Leader

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos · India · Remote

  • Working directly with C-suite executives — including the CEO and COO — to define the company’s AI strategy and implement AI solution into product, day-to-day operations, driving revenue growth and measurable business impact

Microsoft

Software Engineering Lead

Jun 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · India · Hybrid

  • 1) Led the successful delivery of the Liftr–New Relic integration, managing cross-functional execution from solution architecture to production deployment.
  • 2) Built and scaled a shared infrastructure platform to accelerate partner onboarding—achieving over 50% reduction in time to market (from 6 months to under 2 months).
  • 3) Designed and deployed AI-powered agents to automate repetitive engineering workflows such as deployment validation, compliance checks, telemetry onboarding, and provisioning—resulting in 30% cost savings and improved delivery consistency.
  • 4) Onboarded critical observability partners—New Relic, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Logz.io, and Dynatrace—to Azure Marketplace, contributing to a 20% year-over-year growth in Azure consumption via partner services.
  • 5) Partnered with global ISVs and customers to define integration strategies aligned with Microsoft cloud standards, driving platform adoption and customer success.
  • 6) Led and mentored a high-performing team of 8 engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and engineering excellence.
  • 7) Institutionalized engineering fundamentals across Azure Marketplace and partner-facing teams to ensure long-term scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
GitLeadershipMicrosoft AzureC#LangChainRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

Salesforce

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Mar 2020May 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Contributed as a core engineer and backend lead on the development of Salesforce’s next-generation Customer Data Platform (CDP), focused on real-time segmentation, large-scale data unification, and partner-facing integrations.
  • Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
  • 1) Led backend development of microservices for segmentation and activation pipelines, enabling marketing and analytics teams to define and activate user cohorts in real-time across Salesforce CDP.
  • 2) Designed and implemented distributed Spark jobs on AWS EMR to process 1TB+ of user behavior and identity data, reducing query latency and powering dynamic segment materialization at scale.
  • 3) Developed high-throughput, scalable APIs using Spring Boot, capable of handling tens of thousands of concurrent requests, supporting real-time access and update of customer profiles.
  • 4) Engineered AWS-based data pipelines in Scala for high-volume ingestion, identity resolution, and segment creation, significantly improving the reliability and speed of data processing workflows.
  • 5) Built a Django-Tastypie-based partner-facing application that provided self-service data management capabilities to external partners and data providers, streamlining partner onboarding and lifecycle operations.
  • 6) Drove DevOps maturity by managing Terraform- and Spinnaker-based CI/CD pipelines, and handled production-grade deployments across AWS EC2, EMR, and VMF infrastructure.
  • 7)Improved pipeline efficiency and reduced operational costs by 20% through Spark optimizations and smarter cluster usage.
  • 8) Enabled Salesforce CDP to scale from MVP to 10x data volume growth, supporting increased enterprise adoption and platform-wide feature expansion.
  • Technologies: Java, Python 3, Scala, AWS (Lambda, EMR, EC2, S3), Spark, Spring Boot, Django Tastypie, Terraform, Spinnaker, Apache Iceberg, VMF, distributed systems, microservices.

Servicenow

Software Engineer (SDE2)

Oct 2017Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

  • Led the development and scaling of a high-performance enterprise chatbot solution integrated with ServiceNow, enhancing customer interaction through AI-powered capabilities and third-party integrations.
  • Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
  • 1) Spearheaded the development of an enterprise-level chatbot plugin for ServiceNow, integrating it with third-party clients like Slack and Messenger, significantly expanding the platform’s accessibility and adoption by enterprise customers.
  • 2) Architected and implemented a reverse proxy to securely expose chatbot endpoints to external clients, ensuring seamless integration while maintaining security and scalability.
  • 3) Led the scalability efforts of the chatbot solution, enabling it to handle high-load environments, and integrated IBM Watson and proprietary machine learning models to enhance chatbot capabilities and improve user interactions.
  • 4) Developed a modular NLU framework using React.js that allowed clients to easily create, modify, and manage intents and utterances, enabling self-service customization for diverse use cases.
  • 5) Played the critical role of Track Master, managing and merging Git tracks across development lifecycles, ensuring streamlined collaboration and high code quality within the team.
  • 6) Led the development of a usage analytics framework to consolidate data from all ServiceNow applications, creating a comprehensive data stream for analysis in big-data systems, driving insights into platform usage and adoption patterns.
  • 7) Enhanced team performance by reducing feature deployment time by 30% through efficient version control practices and improving the scalability of systems to handle 2x user traffic.
  • Technologies: Java, JavaScript, J2EE, NGINX, System Design, React.js, Machine Learning, Analytics, IBM Watson, NLU Framework, Big Data.

Ivy comptech

Software Engineer

May 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • 1) Developed 2+ core and compliance microservices for the Bwin.Party gaming platform using Java, Spring, and Hibernate, enhancing modularity and supporting multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance.
  • 2)Integrated video verification APIs from third-party KYC providers, reducing manual verification efforts by 40% and accelerating user onboarding by 25%.
  • 3)Built a React.js-based KYC monitoring dashboard integrated with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK stack), enabling real-time failure analysis and reducing regulatory investigation time by 50%.
  • 4)Designed a real-time UI framework to display active game session data from external regulators, supporting compliance audits and reducing reporting delays by 60%.
  • 5)Led full-stack delivery across backend (Java/J2EE, REST APIs, PL/SQL) and frontend (React.js), using Tomcat, Gradle, and SVN, with a strong focus on microservice-based system design.
  • Technologies : Java/J2ee, pl/sql, javaScript, microservices, spring, hibernate, react.js, elastic search, tomcat, system design, svn, gradle, rest webservices.

Oracle

Software Developer

Apr 2015May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • 1) Built Oracle Fusion CRM web pages enabling sales representatives to assign and track partner contributions for opportunities, improving partner attribution accuracy and incentive alignment.
  • 2) Developed custom dashboards from scratch to display activities, contacts, related accounts, and opportunity revenues, enhancing user productivity and data visibility across sales workflows.
  • 3) Automated CRM data rendering for logged-in users based on access roles and activity history, significantly reducing manual filtering and improving daily task efficiency for 1000+ users.
  • 4) Owned the full patch development lifecycle—from implementing feature changes to testing and delivering deployable artifacts—ensuring timely internal CRM updates with minimal production impact.
  • 5) Collaborated cross-functionally with product, QA, and internal support teams to deliver CRM enhancements aligned with quarterly release goals, boosting feature delivery velocity by 30%.
  • Technologies: Java/J2EE, PL/SQL, Oracle fusion CRM, Svn, JSP, Soap Webservices.

Cognizant technology solutions

Programmer Analyst

Sep 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Kolkata Area, India

  • 1) Developed and deployed 15+ SSRS reports using complex SQL queries and successfully integrated them into Microsoft Dynamics CRM, enabling business users to access real-time insurance metrics and improving reporting turnaround by 40%.
  • 2) Created and hosted SOAP-based web services on IIS, facilitating secure external data exchange with partners and reducing manual data entry by 60% through seamless CRM integration.
  • 3) Acquired in-depth CRM domain expertise tailored to the insurance sector, contributing to more accurate data modeling and enhancing requirement gathering efficiency for cross-functional development teams.
  • Technologies: C#, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Java/J2EE, Multithreading, SSRS, MS SQL server, Soap Webservices.

Education

Harvard Business School Online

Executive MBA

Jul 2021Sep 2021

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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