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Kunal Singh

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 19 years of experience in technology leadership.
  • Expert in building secure conversational AI solutions.
  • Proven track record in cost optimization and team mentorship.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong leadership in AI and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Conversational AiEngineering ManagementOperational ExcellenceArchitectureTeam ManagementBackend DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentSecurityAutomationConsulting

Other Skills

Generative AIAzure Bot servicesCo-Pilot StudioSLA ManagementChannel StrategyCross-functional CollaborationCost ManagementCloud Storage OptimizationSAASMetadata ManagementStakeholder ManagementAgile ManagementTrade ProcessingMicroservicesKafka

About

I am a technology enthusiast and open source contributor. I believe in continuous learning and becoming better version of yourself. As a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 19 years of experience, I specialize in building secure, scalable conversational AI solutions, driving innovation in Azure Bot services and Co-Pilot Studio. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, we launched Slack, SharePoint, and WhatsApp channels, enhancing engagement and customer reach while ensuring compliance with organizational security standards. Focused on reliability and operational excellence, I supported cost savings of ~$400k/year by optimizing premium storage accounts and maintained >99.9% SLA for our products. Passionate about team growth, I have mentored champions in security, accessibility, and privacy, fostering a culture of excellence and compliance in delivering impactful enterprise-grade solutions. * Github - https://github.com/kunsingh * Leetcode - https://leetcode.com/kunsingh * Blog - http://www.basicsbehind.com * Personal idea prototype(gamified learning platform) - https://www.mid-day.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/article/technology--superheroes-to-teach-coding-in-new-online-coaching-platform-17173171 http://www.herolabs.io * Books published - https://www.amazon.in/Rudra-Origin-Vinod/dp/1642493686 https://www.amazon.in/Aakash-1-Clash-Legion-Darkness/dp/1642493708

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Led the channel expansion strategy for copilot studio and released WhatsApp, SharePoint and Slack channel within a year.
  • Successfully led the migration of premium V3 storage accounts, resulting in cost saving of ~$400k/year.
  • Driven multiples get fit area in ABS for security, reliability and steady state. As a result, the product is more secure now and compliant with organization wide security standards, consistently maintaining low incidents count and able to yield more than 60% of DRI time.
  • Sustaining Product SLA, S360, Privacy, Threat modelling, SDL and accessibility - All Green throughout the year
  • SLA maintained at > 99.9%
Generative AIAzure Bot servicesCo-Pilot StudioSecurityOperational ExcellenceSLA Management+2

Senior Engineering Manager

Sep 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Sr Engineer | Architect

Mar 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Informatica

Development Architect

Feb 2021Mar 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Architecting SAAS based metadata catalog system for different datastore.
  • Creating a platform for Metadata where customers can bring their own metadata and ingest into
  • Informatica system to visualize the relationships for Governance and decision making.
  • Managing stakeholders which include governance, program, and Product
  • Taking part in feature discovery and refinement and compile them in form of epics and stories.
  • Playing key role in architectural decisions and an active member of architects group.
SAASMetadata ManagementStakeholder ManagementArchitecture

Tesco

Software development manager

Sep 2020Feb 2021 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  •  Owning price and promotion management.
  •  Managing agile team of 14 people from grads to SDE-3 located in India and Budapest.
  •  Managing stakeholders which include governance, program and Product
  •  Taking part in feature discovery and refinement and compile them in form of epics and stories.
  •  Playing key role in architectural decisions and an active member of design council.
  •  One and one with team members, feedbacks, ratings and appraisal is the part of my role.
Agile ManagementStakeholder ManagementTeam Management

Morgan stanley

Vice President

Feb 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Working on scaling different components of trade processing to onboard large quality quant funds trades which includes writing hashing components, multi instance deployments and parallel processing.
  • Architected and developed downstream Micro Services based generic back end system to serve many business dashboard under Prime brokerage.
  • Increased throughput by adding clustered Hazelcast caches high volume data query and improved overall network read time.
  • Setup and Integrated Kafka cluster to create high cohesive Microservices and decoupled using Kafka cluster.
  • Setup whole pipeline on Jenkins and other Devops like Sonar and continuous build.
  • Leading and driving the projects with team of highly technical members, playing a key role in Agile and devops transformation.
  • Evaluated product development strategy effectiveness and prepared alternative approaches to exceed
  • goals.
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and overall departmental productivity
Trade ProcessingMicroservicesKafkaDevOpsBackend Development

Syncron

Principal Software Engineer

Apr 2018Sep 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • As architect, converted monolithic application to Spring Boot based Micro services based architecture which improved overall performance and cohesiveness of services.
  • Improved throughput of Order Management aggregation dashboard using Amazon RedShift which involves million of rows.
  • Mentored and lead highly technical team of 5-6 members.
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues
MicroservicesAmazon RedShiftArchitecture

Karakun

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2012Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 11 mos

  • Open source implementation of the presentation model pattern that lets you bind any frontend - whether desktop, web or mobile - to your server in a modern way.
  • Improved some of the core apis like Http Transmitter to send Http Request to server and Command Batcher to reduce server call for multiple value change for same field.
  • Design and Implemented some core data structures like Observable List as part of library where all mutation of the list can be observed.
  • Extended framework to add OAuth based security library.
  • Link - Open source contribution - https://github.com/canoo/dolphin-platform.
Open Source DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2012May 2016 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Build a platform for the Bosch engineering to simplify data exchange and to enable easier collaboration.
  • Build a custom Google search system to showcase people search with user defined keyword like "fraud" before taking any financial product.
  • Build a system for a German e-commerce to categorize different search words in search engine in the categories like- blacklist (pornographic), whitelist, boost phrase etc Improved running time of blacklist determination process 10 times faster by implementing customized Lavenshtein distance algorithm.
Data Exchange PlatformSearch System DevelopmentSoftware Development

Bnp paribas

Software Enginner

Oct 2011Apr 2012 · 6 mos

  • IAM: Identity and access management for all BNP products
  • Achievements:
  • Lead and mentored the implementation of new added features.
  • Coaching team for agile and started practicing agile/scrum
Identity and Access ManagementSecurity

J.p. morgan

Software Enginner

Feb 2010Sep 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Sole team member responsible to give training on domain as well as on technologies to new members.
  • Created various interactive and responsive UI in fast pace.
  • Written Spring Batch to speed up the processing of various offline data and update different DB tables.
TrainingUI DevelopmentSpring BatchSoftware Development

Ge

Software Engineer

Feb 2008Feb 2010 · 2 yrs

  • Presentation Layer Enterprise Solution: PLES is developed to monitor the turbines data.
  • Achievements:
  • Saved 90% of data validation time by automating the manual process of comparing large excels. Written a tool using JXL.
  • Got management award for the automation of comparison process of turbine generated large data.
Data Validation AutomationAutomation

Capgemini consulting

Associate Consultant

Jun 2006Jan 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • HealthCare Revenue Cycle Platform: This project was a Charity Care / Bad Debt determination solution for healthcare providers.
  • Achievements:
  • Created prototype and presented it to the client which turns into project signoff.
  • Lead the frontend and backend implementation with 5 developers.
Healthcare Revenue Cycle ManagementConsulting

Education

Savitribai Phule Pune University

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Bharati Vidyapeeth

Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) — Computer Science

Jan 2003Jan 2006

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