Kovid Mahajan

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in developing resilient backend systems.
  • Proven experience in modernizing legacy systems.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional team collaborations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in SAAS solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

.net CoreC#BackendResiliencySecurity Assessment

Other Skills

.NETAuthorizationAzure Cosmos DBAzure FunctionsCC++Computer ArchitectureContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaData structures and algorithmsDatabase Management System (DBMS)Design PatternsGitGraphQLGraphQL APIs

Experience

6 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Uber

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Working as a swe in Uber Mobility solutions, growth bets team.
ResiliencyBackendJSON Web Token (JWT)Authorizationasynchronous programmingMessage Queue+35

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Jan 2025Oct 2025 · 9 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Backend Engineer – Bing Search Responsible AI | Microsoft
  • Working on building a Defensive Hub Platform to proactively detect and measure potential harms in Bing Search for high-risk queries (e.g., those posing threats to human safety).
  • 🔹 Developed a platform to scrape and compare Bing vs. Google across Web, Image, and Video verticals under Moderate SafeSearch, integrating data pipelines and evaluations.
  • 🔹 Partnered with the UHRS team to collect and analyze human judgments on search results, enabling detailed quality and harm assessments.
  • 🔹 Improved platform resiliency by adding retries, fault tolerance, and robust error handling across various internal and external APIs.
  • 🔹 Assisting multiple teams in onboarding their use cases to the Defensive Hub, driving alignment in harm measurement and risk evaluation across Bing.
  • 🔹 Currently focusing on evaluating Bing’s performance in Strict SafeSearch mode due to upcoming UK OSA compliance, refining harm metrics to ensure safety and compliance at scale.
ResiliencyBackendJSON Web Token (JWT)Authorizationasynchronous programmingMessage Queue+35

Software Engineer 2

May 2022Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

  • Full Stack Engineer – Commerce and Finance Systems | Microsoft
  • 🔹 Mailer Framework Development
  • Contributed to the development of a robust, asynchronous mailer framework for the sourcing team. Designed to support multiple templates via tokenized runtime data, the system uses a JSON-configured payload and is triggered through a message queue. Built-in resiliency allows for retries and safe handling of failed messages via a dead letter queue.
  • 🔹 Legacy CRM Modernization
  • Led the transition from a legacy supplier programs CRM system by designing and implementing a new, modernized platform from scratch. Built scalable APIs and reusable UI components to enhance performance and maintainability.
  • Tech Stack: .NET, GraphQL APIs, MySQL, Azure Cosmos DB, React, TypeScript, Azure Functions.
  • 🔹NVJ Modernization – Wizard Integration
  • Collaborated with the SLM team to develop a dynamic wizard page integrating document upload/download features. Focused on seamless user interactions and comprehensive error handling. Integrated with SharePoint APIs for document operations.
  • Tech Stack: .NET, REST APIs, MySQL, React, TypeScript.
  • 🔹Self-Sourcing Supplier Portal
  • Currently developing the supplier-facing side of a self-sourcing portal, emphasizing accessibility, usability, and accuracy. Aimed at enabling suppliers to efficiently respond to sourcing requirements with clarity and precision.
  • Tech Stack: .NET, GraphQL, Azure Cosmos DB, MySQL, Content Translation Services.
  • 🔹Security & Threat Modeling
  • Worked on S360 security fundamentals, focusing on threat modeling and secure system design. Implemented secretless authentication using managed identities and eliminated key-based access. Created and presented the overall system architecture to the security review board.
ResiliencyBackendJSON Web Token (JWT)Authorizationasynchronous programmingMessage Queue+35

The d. e. shaw group

2 roles

Senior Member Technical

Jan 2022Apr 2022 · 3 mos

Member Technical (Software Engineer)

May 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Contributed to the firm’s proprietary job scheduling and workload automation platform, Batch.
  • Led efforts in designing and building the Batchdev environment—a near-production simulation setup that allowed safe migration of Batch jobs without executing real production commands.

Oracle

Associate Security Analyst

Jun 2019Apr 2020 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • My journey at Oracle was short but challenging. I worked on performing security assessment of web applications with respect to OWASP Top 10 - 2017 using proxy interception tools such as BURPSUITE and OWASP Dependency checker. I have a little working knowledge on source code reviews.
  • Worked on a python based framework tool that consolidates different reports of Dependency checker into one, removing duplicate entries and sorting them based on the version of report. This tool is currently being used internally different reports. As an enhancement to the above a UI was later added to ease the usage of the tool.
  • Language :- Python
Python (Programming Language)Security Assessment

Education

Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar ( PUNJAB)

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

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Sri guru harkrishan public school, Mission road, Pathankot

High School

Jan 2013Jan 2015

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