Dec 2021 – Nov 2022 · 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• TL for https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/mobile-app-alerts (shipped)

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Leading the development of MsTeams integration with GitHub
• Lead this project from concept to global availability.
• Role involves
• coming up with high level architecture which is scale proof for future.
• mentoring junior engineers in the team.
• collaborating with partner teams in GitHub and Microsoft to deliver customer scenarios.
• Beta release: https://github.blog/2020-09-10-announcing-the-github-integration-with-microsoft-teams/
• GA release: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-03-02-github-app-for-microsoft-teams-is-now-generally-available/

Mar 2018 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• delivered/ maintained multiple projects
• Worked on ChatOps for Azure DevOps
• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/tag/chatops/
• Lead and deliverd CLI for Azure DevOps.
• Do check it out: https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-devops-cli-extension
• Collaborated across Azure and Azure DevOps teams to create a comprehensive CLI solution, learning new language Python and how to deliver python based projects. Established processes for code quality maintenance and open-source contributions.
• GitHub profile: https://github.com/gauravsaralMs

Jan 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Worked on version control team. designed implemented and owned import feature for VSTS and TFS.

Apr 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Contributed to the open-source system component governance team for Visual Studio Team Services, streamlining management through a unified entry point. Recognized with a Visual Studio Star Award. Transitioned to performance optimization and UI development, enhancing system responsiveness and designing a UI using JS, HTML, and CSS.

Oct 2014 – Mar 2015 · 5 mos

• Contributed to Azure App Service Connectors Team, developing microservice-based connectors for seamless cross-platform app building, reducing development time. Created a framework for connector services, building connectors for Chatter, Twitter, and Wait. In Azure Workflow Service, played a key role in designing and scaling large-scale, mission-critical services for Office 365, focusing on DevOps, system scaling, and performance optimization.

Aug 2014 – Oct 2014 · 2 mos

• Azure Resource Management – Garage Project: Provides solution for resource access, ownership and efficient utilization of Azure resources owned by Microsoft internal teams. This was a garage project, adopted by > 15 Microsoft teams. This project was awarded Microsoft Innovation award.
• Azure BizTalk B2B Team: Provide a wholesome development, management and operational experience for partners and customers delivering cloud and hybrid integration solutions. Aim is building framework which helps enterprise to talk to each other and bridge any impedance mismatch in their protocol, messaging format with at least once guarantee. I was involved in ensuring quality, scalability and reliability of B2B piece of the distributed cloud service.

Jun 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Led quality verification for Azure Cache, a family of distributed, in-memory solutions for super-fast data access, targeting millisecond latency with 99.9999% uptime.
• Recognized by Microsoft Innovation for Azure Resource Management Garage Project, streamlining resource access and utilization for over 15 Microsoft teams.
• Contributed to Azure BizTalk B2B, ensuring quality and scalability in building a framework for seamless enterprise communication and integration with at least once guarantee.

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked for 2 months as an SDET at Microsoft, focusing on scale and performance testing for DPM 2012's new UI, responsibilities included designing test strategy, creating setups, conducting tests, and raising bugs based on performance logs.

May 2010 – Jun 2010 · 1 mo · Bhubaneshwar Area, India

• Second-year training with IBM in CEIS (Carrier Education in IBM Software), focusing on SDS (Smarter Distribution Systems), an automated system streamlining electricity distribution tasks, including bill generation, emailing bills to customers, and serving as an interface between the company's databases and stakeholders.