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Lohitaksh Gupta

Co-Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States8 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led Azure DevOps resiliency initiatives.
  • Co-founded Omniversity to empower students.
  • Mentored future engineers at University of Washington.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure and developer productivity.

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Skills

Core Skills

Azure DevopsCloud InfrastructureSecuritySoftware DesignCoaching & MentoringFrontend DevelopmentData Engineering

Other Skills

.NET Framework1ES-based pipelinesAlgorithmsAutomationAzureBusiness DevelopmentCC#CSSData MiningEntrepreneurshipHTMLHadoopJavaJavaScript

About

I am working as a Software Engineer for Azure DevOps at Microsoft HQ, Redmond (Greater Seattle area) WA. Within Azure DevOps, I work on platform experience, reliability, resiliency and security. Previously, I worked for the Visual Studio Engineering team, primarily focusing on the build, release and shipping of Visual Studio. During college, I interned at Microsoft (IntelliSense for XML in Visual Studio), Visa (machine learning applications on Hadoop; focused on large-scale data engineering and computation) and Yahoo! (full-stack development for Yahoo Sports Chrome extension). Also, worked as a Microsoft Surface Student Ambassador in my sophomore year. I also co-founded my startup, Omniversity, to help students build their resumes, coding portfolios, interview prep, and land internships and full-time jobs. I am also working as a mentor with CoMotion at the University of Washington. I love to go for adventure sports, hikes, camps, skiing, workouts and road trips (already completed a 10,000-mile rectangle across the US)!

Experience

8 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer II - Azure DevOps (ADO): Experiences & Platform, Developer Division, Core AI

Promoted

Nov 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States · Hybrid

  • Azure DevOps (ADO): Experiences & Platform, Developer Division, Core AI
  • Live Site Resiliency & System Architecture:
  • Spearheaded zonal resiliency and high availability for Azure DevOps (a Microsoft Quality Critical Service), leading Zone Down Drills, repairing infrastructure (SQL, Redis, DBs - HyperScale & Business Critical, Host Moves, VMSS upgrades), and aligning 30+ microservices for reliability.
  • Built central dashboards, automated YAML rollback tooling, and established documentation/wikis to enable rapid response and self-service for global teams.
  • Full-Stack Web Development & Platform Support:
  • Designed and delivered high-impact features for ADO’s frontend and platform, leveraging React, TypeScript, and RESTful APIs to power intuitive user experiences for developers and enterprise customers.
  • Worked with SQL-based backend systems, troubleshooting, optimising, and architecting resilient data flows for business-critical workloads. Collaborated closely with Azure SQL teams to address live site challenges and implement proactive mitigations.
  • Security & Compliance:
  • Drove the Security Feature Initiative (SFI), minimising and securing ADO extensions across Microsoft. Established 1ES-based pipelines for extension signing, ensuring supply chain integrity and organizational compliance.
  • AI Engineering & Developer Productivity:
  • Leveraged GitHub Copilot, automation, and AI assistants to boost engineering velocity and testing coverage. Shared AI adoption strategies and delivered productivity improvements via custom tools and scripts.
  • Leadership & Collaboration:
  • Led cross-team initiatives to align microservice deployments, drove Ring Alignment and Zonal Resiliency to completion, mentored engineers/interns, and represented ADO in Azure QCS meetings. Served as a Diversity & Inclusion advocate, mentor for Microsoft for Startups, and key community leader for partnerships with the University of Washington.
TypeScriptC#Cloud InfrastructureAzure DevOpsAutomationMicrosoft Azure+6

Software Engineer - Visual Studio Engineering: Build & Release, Developer Division, Core AI

Feb 2020Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States · Hybrid

  • Owned MicroBuild service, which enables 5000+ Visual Studio developers to test, build and release their signed components quickly.
  • Hosted office hours and served weekly on-call rotations to help customers with build and security-related issues.
  • Executed security compliances, including President Executive Orders such as Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), across Visual Studio product repositories
Software DesignTypeScriptAzure DevOpsC#PowershellReact+3

Comotion at university of washington

Startup Mentor

Apr 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Venture FinancingBusiness DevelopmentCoaching & Mentoring

Omniversity

Co-Founder, Director - Engineering | Subject Mentor - Data Science

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Remote

  • Upskilling undergraduate students in India to deliver day-1 productivity in industry. Students learn by doing, build portfolio and get placed through Omniversity.

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

  • Developed MSBuild Language Service Tool Extension for Visual Studio IDE. Designed to be operated on .NET Core. Using Intelli-Sense and Auto-Complete to build the dynamic language service for developers using MSBuild project files.
  • Worked on CD Notes Searchable Database project for the Hackathon.

Visa

Hadoop Developer/Analyst Intern

May 2018Aug 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Won the Visa Global Hackathon (site level). Competed against 350 teams. Unleashed the power of data by building Visa specific predictive bank ratings. The hack has a potential of saving $100+ million.
  • Developed a spend classification tool using supervised machine learning techniques. Used Pandas and PySpark Python libraries to formulate a multi-class text classification technique to classify spend data, with a high confidence level. Deployed the code on Hadoop clusters and leveraged Tableau to visualize the data.

Yahoo! inc.

Software Engineering Intern

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · Sunnyvale, California

  • Worked for Yahoo! Search team.
  • Project 1: Sports New Tab Extension for Google Chrome
  • Enhanced web development skills by developing a dynamic sports newtab extension for Google Chrome, featuring US sports leagues such as MLB, NHL, NBA and NFL. Extensively used JavaScript and plethora of Sports APIs to develop it.
  • Learned industry level design process and strategies on how to amplify web traffic. Aimed at amplifying US traffic to Yahoo! Search and Sports.
  • Project 2: Data Analytics and Management
  • Worked with Apache Hadoop and Pig scripts to efficiently extract and arrange data from Benzene, one of the largest grids in the world. With the help of ‘Looker’, a UI for data visualization, was able successfully process and represent the data graphically, which thereby helps the program and marketing managers to better monitor the outreach and performance of their products worldwide.

Microsoft

Microsoft Surface Student Ambassador

Feb 2017May 2017 · 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Executed marketing campaigns weekly to spread the news about Microsoft products on the campus and provided technical feedback to the Surface team. Successfully created an optimistic environment among the students and professors for the Surface lineup.
  • Invited by Microsoft to attend the Microsoft Keynote held on May 02, 2017 in New York City.

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

2 roles

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2017Dec 2017 · 11 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • • Working collaboratively with graduate students and professors at Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, to conduct the labs, office hours and problem solving sessions for the course, ECE 110: Introduction to Electronics.

Information Technology Consultant

Oct 2016May 2017 · 7 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Maintained the computer architecture and the server systems across the engineering workstations and labs in the university.
  • Operated directly with the supervisor and fixed the IT problems faced by professors and students in the university. Worked with the ticket system.

Evermem, inc. (flipword)

Software Development Intern

Sep 2016Dec 2016 · 3 mos · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

  • Collaborated in the development of passive language learning platform, which allows users to learn foreign languages accidentally while browsing the web.
  • Coded extensively in JavaScript to develop the front-end of Google Chrome Application: FlipWord.

Stanford university

Home Health - Project Lead, Silicon Valley Innovation Academy

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Stanford University, California

  • Launched a project related to the prediction of health of large electrical appliances in households and low to medium segment hotel industries.
  • Engineered the principles of Machine Learning and Internet of Things to formulate a data analysis and prediction algorithm, based on classification model and then tested it on 10 electrical appliances. Worked closely with professors in Stanford University.
  • Enhanced the entrepreneur skills by focusing on pitching, problem centric innovation, design thinking, customer segments and building minimum viable products.
  • Won the award for having ‘The Largest Pivot’ in the Stanford Sharks Competition.

Liontech rocket lab

Payload: Executive Board, Webmaster

Aug 2015May 2016 · 9 mos · State College, Pennsylvania Area

  • Collaborated in the development of the payload subsystem of the rocket for the University Student Launch Initiative Competition 2016, hosted by NASA. Acquired 4th position in the national competition.
  • Remodeled the image sensing algorithms and programmed the camera systems and sensors in Python.

Education

Penn State University

Computer Engineering

Jan 2019Dec 2019

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor’s Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2015Jan 2018

Stanford University

Computer Science and Entrepreneurship

Jan 2016Jan 2016

Bal Bharati Public School

High School — Science

Jan 2004Jan 2014

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