Pankaj Kumar

Software Engineer

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India8 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led AI agent development for Microsoft 365.
Achieved 1,700% growth in digital ink creation.
Implemented IPv6 support for enhanced user experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with expertise in cloud integration and user experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Azure DevopsCloud SecurityTypescriptC++Networking

Other Skills

Azure Managed IdentityAzure OpenAIMicrosoft AugLoopMicrosoft 365 Agent LibraryAzure DevOps (YAML)CI/CDGraph APIAutomationDependency ManagementCopilot IntegrationMicrosoft OfficeDigital InkUser ExperienceGitReact.js

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Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer II (62)

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Leading secure integrations and automation as the go-to engineer for Azure and M365.
Built AI agents with the M365 Agent library, integrated with Azure OpenAI & AugLoop via Managed Identity, and developed YAML-based DevOps pipelines for CI/CD and automated package management.
Key Skills: Azure Managed Identity · Azure OpenAI · Microsoft AugLoop · Microsoft 365 Agent Library · Azure DevOps (YAML) · CI/CD · Graph API · Cloud Security · Automation · Dependency Management

Azure Managed IdentityAzure OpenAIMicrosoft AugLoopMicrosoft 365 Agent LibraryAzure DevOps (YAML)CI/CD+5

Software Engineer II (61)

Dec 2021 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Contributed to Copilot commanding scenarios, enabling users to update documents, presentations, and spreadsheets through natural language prompts, with TypeScript as the primary development language.
Led the end-to-end development of the Pen Focused View feature in OneNote Desktop (C++), driving 1,700% growth in digital ink creation and 700% growth in ink engagement.
Extended the Windows Handwrite Anywhere capability to Office Win32 apps (C++), modernizing legacy text boxes and resolving 90% of ink-to-text issues.
Key Skills: TypeScript · C++ · Copilot Integration · Microsoft Office · Digital Ink · User Experience

TypeScriptC++Copilot IntegrationMicrosoft OfficeDigital InkUser Experience

Arista networks

Software Engineer

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

● To improve the access point diagnosis in case of file corruption Implemented file integrity check using md5sum.
● Implemented the support of IPv6 inside access point that let users monitor & debug Quality of Experience(QOE) of any application using the IPv6 address of application.

C++Networking

Interra systems

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

● Drove implementation of quality requirements for C++ Desktop Application’s designs and adherence to customer specification and product requirements
● Worked within Agile team and helped prioritize features requests to ensure that the biggest features were worked first.
● Regularly interacted with the customers for a better understanding of the requested feature or to address the issue faced
● Reduced the false positive issue reporting with regular communication with application engineers to illustrate high-level feature working
● Designed the multithreaded algorithm to play UHD media files in real-time which resulted in 70-80% performance gain in playback

Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

● Introduced an option to display the brand logo at 8 possible positions, inside the video frame using alpha blending for anti-piracy purposes
● Updated close captions rendering to support overlay of Dynamically Redefinable Character SETS (DRCS) over the video for ARIB subtitle format using bitmap images
● Implemented unlimited backward frame by frame navigation feature with callbacks and threading to make the video inspection process more convenient
● Improved the player's seeking functionality by 30% to make it more smooth with asynchronous multithreading providing a better user experience
● Completed 80+ issues to improve, fix, and add features with the debug-fix-release development cycle
● Reorganized the development codebase(containing 50K lines of code with 15+ third-party libraries) to VS2017 making it cross-platform compilable using CMake
● Conserved team effort and increase productivity by making cross-platform (Windows and Mac) build creation automated, with single click python script