Rahul A.

Senior Software Engineer

Issaquah, Washington, United States12 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Over six years of software engineering experience.
Contributed to revenue-generating features at Microsoft.
Expert in developing cloud-based applications.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with strong cloud application development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DesignBack-end Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingAzure Devops

Other Skills

Software InfrastructureGo (Programming Language)JavaMonitoring ToolsData StructuresMachine LearningArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingData VisualizationPythonHTMLJavaScriptjQueryCC++

About

As a software engineer at Thumbtack, I leverage my skills to develop and scale cloud-based applications that enhance user experience and helps us retain customers on our platform. I have over six years of experience in the software industry, working with leading companies such as Meta, Microsoft and Dell EMC. At Microsoft, I contributed to the design and implementation of features that enabled print partners to develop features on Microsoft Cloud Print, generating revenue and increasing active users. I also created dashboards and alerts for Kalypso, Microsoft's system health monitoring tool for Azure DevOps, improving service performance and reliability. My mission is to create innovative and impactful solutions that solve real-world problems and empower users.

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Thumbtack

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

Software DesignBack-End Web DevelopmentSoftware InfrastructureGo (Programming Language)

Career Break

Jul 2023 – Aug 2023 · 1 mo · Seattle, Washington

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 · 10 mos

Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – Mar 2021 · 3 yrs

Added Searching, Sorting, and Filtering capabilities to Microsoft Cloud Print Azure portal which helps Admins to manage their printers effectively.
Improved the performance of the service to serve the request in sub-second.
Designed, and implemented features that enable print partners to develop features on Microsoft Cloud Print. This has a direct impact on the revenue generated and the number of active users.
Came up with metrics that can measure the feature usage, the revenue, and the active users.
Drive the full software development lifecycle from conceptualization, design, implementation, feature roll out to support for Kalypso, Microsoft’s system health monitoring tool for Azure DevOps.
Created dashboards and alerting mechanisms to monitor the health of the system.
Enhanced Kalypso’s security by changing the authentication mechanism to bring your own secrets.
Resolved discrepancies in Daily/Monthly Active Users metrics by conducting root cause analysis, identifying the issue, and collaborating with Azure DevOps teams to resolve the issue.
Created anomaly detection functions enabling Azure DevOps teams to detect anomalies in metrics, such as availability, failed requests, and the number of exceptions thrown.
Introduced feature to measure the performance of Kalypso through metrics such as execution time.

Arizona state university

Graduate Assistant

Sep 2016 – Jun 2017 · 9 mos · Tempe, Arizona

Evaluate student assignments, quizzes, exam papers and give feedback to the student on performance.
Teach students about the Object-Oriented Programming paradigm such as Abstraction, Encapsulation, Data Hiding, Inheritance, Dynamic Dispatching by live coding java examples.
Clarify student’s doubts on the subject during tutoring hours, ensure that they got the concepts correct.

Dell emc

Software Engineer

Sep 2013 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Wrote multithreading Java program for migrating data from the Excel Sheet to MongoDB.
Created web-application to start, stop and check the status of migration.
Ensured the product quality by documenting all tasks, creating test environments and conducting test cases which helped in achieving better customer satisfaction score for the team.
Technologies: Java, CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Laurus infosystems

Software Intern

Jan 2013 – Aug 2013 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Created an e-lab notebook which helps lab assistants to record an experiment.
Refactored the existing code using DRY principle to keep the code simple and manageable.
Added versioning functionality, which makes easy for the lab assistants to keep track of progress.
Technologies: Java, CSS, HTML, JavaScript