Simrat Pal Singh Satia

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom11 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Promoted every year at Microsoft for outstanding performance.
  • Led impactful projects enhancing Azure's reliability and security.
  • Passionate about mentorship and technology learning.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing Engineer with strong expertise in Azure and Linux systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

AzureLinuxSecurityAzure DevopsGolangCi/cdMean StackNodejs

Other Skills

Technical DebtClient Package DesignValidationSDP Release ProcessCloud ComputingC#DotnetCross-functional Team LeadershipPowershellAnsibleContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)PythonVirtualizationMocha (JavaScript Framework)ARM Template

About

In 4.5 years at Microsoft, I got promoted from new grad (L59) to senior engineer (L63). I was lucky to have been surrounded by talented peers and trusted with impactful projects to lead. In 2025, I transitioned to Meta (London), Horizon Worlds as Senior Engineer (E5) to build the next generation of social experiences on VR! Having started my tango with computers at an early age with C++/QBasic in school, my University courses on Artifial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Operating System, Database, Data Structures and Algorithms brought out a great deal of passion for the Computer discipline. This allowed me to dive deeper into the research field with notable publications on contemporary issues such as Smartphone and PUBG Addition. Post Uni, I joined Microsoft IDC and later Meta, London as SDE to venture into the field of technical industry. Through my 6 years of experience, I have honed my technical accumen through various projects, often lauded for excellent context switching between them and showcasing tremendous ownership, which led to being rewarded with promotions every consecutive year. I carry skills such as Java, Python, Golang, C-Sharp, Linux, Typescript, NodeJS, Mocha, Shell Scripting, Powershell, Computer Architecture, Cloud Computing (Azure), Ansible Automation, Virtualization, Microservices, DS/Algo, AzDevops Latex under my belt, which allowed me to design/work on distributed large-scale systems. Also, I have developed a keen sense to look at the project as a whole and expand my breadth of work as and when required, such as directly dealing with Customers or Legal Team in addition to design/development and bringing Azure Hybrid Benefit V3 to Global Availability. Exceedingly passionate about learning new technologies. Also, sharing keen interest in helping others grow through mentorship. Looking forward to new opportunities and challenges that help me grow not just as an engineer but as a technology enthusiast.

Experience

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

Meta

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Horizion Worlds, Reality Labs

Microsoft

5 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2024Dec 2024 · 6 mos

  • Azure Linux
  • Spearheaded a complete overhaul of the client package design, build, validation, and SDP release process for 1M+ Azure RedHat PAYG customers, reducing incidents by 95% and significantly improving reliability of service.
  • Led the security sprint initiative, successfully eliminating all vulnerabilities and technical debt for RedHat Update Infrastructure and Azure Hybrid Benefit, enhancing security posture and compliance.
  • Microsoft-Canonical Partnership
  • Drove the Ubuntu-to-Ubuntu Pro conversion initiative, enabling seamless, zero-downtime upgrades for enterprise customers, unlocking enhanced security and compliance features without disrupting workloads.
  • Azure Qualify
  • Designed smoke validation framework using the Test Workflow Orchestrator, preventing unhealthy builds from deploying, reducing compute wastage, and minimizing nodes going Out For Repair (OFR) - improving infrastructure efficiency.
AzureLinuxSecurityTechnical DebtClient Package DesignValidation+1

Software Engineer II (Level: 62)

Sep 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Azure Linux Team
  • AHB for BYOS - License Management:
  • E2E ownership of design, scalable development of AHB in-vm service and VM extension, bug-bash/automated cloud-testand customer journey/onboarding, allowing conversion from BYOS to PAYG VM model
  • Collaborated with billing, commerce, CELA (Legal), Microsoft Partners (RedHat/SUSE), spearheaded partnership between 30+ stakeholders to develop and announce Global Availability (GA)
  • Design and implement BVTs for daily build testing and CI/CD deployment through AzDevops
  • Mentorship:
  • Currently providing mentroship to a University graduate aiding in the ramp-up and enhancing the onboarding experience to the team and task allocation/breakdown
Azure DevOpsGolangCloud ComputingC#DotnetCross-functional Team Leadership

Software Engineer II (Level: 61)

Promoted

Sep 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Azure Linux Team
  • RedHat on Azure (1M+ VM Cores on Azure / Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI))
  • Developed and maintained products for building Azure RedHat VM images
  • Vertical scaling of infrastructure, leading to 950% improvement in repository synchronization and publish, with over 60% reduction in the incident (ticket) load, saving over 1500+ hours annually
  • Spearheaded the project of onboarding ARM64 SKU,integrating the build pipeline and customization of image
  • Designed and implemented extensible OS agnostic Azure Keyvault Certificate-rotation service, increasing reliability
  • Geneva Monitoring (Cloud Service Telemetry Platform)
  • Integrated all Azlinux project services with monitoring platform with insightful dashboards, monitors and alerts
  • Conducted a session with 50+ engineers Azure Compute wide as SME on monitoring
  • WorkloadBuilder
  • Complete ownership of UI development of workloadbuilder: an orchestrator that provisions and deploys the common workloads and services such as JBoss, Moodle and Weblogic on Azure IaaS platform.
  • Mentored undergrad intern on UI development for Project X, culminating with his PPO from Microsoft
PowershellAnsibleContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)PythonLinuxVirtualization+1

Software Engineer (Level: 59/60)

Promoted

Jul 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Azure Linux Team
  • RedHat On Azure
  • Building and publishing RHEL images onto Azure
  • Development and Optimization of Linux Images, Services, tools and drivers for Azure
  • Load Simulation (Stress Testing and Benchmark Tool)
  • Contributed to design and development for stress testing of linux VMs across CPU, Disk and Memory utilization
  • UIAutomationTool (Web Experience Automation)
  • E2E onwership of design and implementation of extensible automation tool offering the capability to perform e2e testing of any website’s user-interface by means of test cases auto-generated using a yaml spec file and inbuilt ejs template
  • Azure Hybrid Benefit for PAYG
  • Contributed to development of license management of RHEL VM on Azure
  • E2E ownership of monitoring and one-click deployment of infrastructure
  • TuxBuild (One Click Image Build UI)
  • Contributed to design and development of dynamic web-application developed on MEAN stack for building and customizing RedHat images on Azure
  • WorkloadBuilder
  • E2E ownerhip of UX design and UI development for JBoss migration
Mean StackMocha (JavaScript Framework)ARM TemplateRedisDistributed SystemsNodejs+3

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2018Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Worked in the Excel Android, Office Team at Microsoft IDC, Hyderabad | Received a pre-placement offer for the same

Netaji subhas institute of technology

Research Assistant

Feb 2018Feb 2019 · 1 yr

  • Research and Patent Award with grant of Rs 10k to distinguished researchers
  • Worked on the following publications under the guidance of Dr. Swati Agrawal:
  • Predicting likelihood of psychological disorders in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) players from Asian countries using supervised machine learning
  • Pilot Study to Predict Smartphone Addiction Through Usage Pattern of Installed Android Applications and to Derive Correlations Between Addiction and Phone Usage Behavior

The alliance - nsut's newspaper

Managing Editor

Aug 2017Aug 2018 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

  • Successfully launched 20+ editions with a reach of 8000+ readership | Actively contributed to Blog/Artspectives
  • Contributed to the development of website: alliancensit.com

Rotary club

Web Developer

Jun 2011Jun 2016 · 5 yrs · Delhi

  • Developed a website for Rotary Club of Delhi Metro 3010 using in-built tools provided by Big Rock and knowledge of front end development
  • Received 10 years worth of free subscription and domain name as a token of appreciation by Big Rock

Education

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2019

Mata Jai Kaur Public School

High School

Jan 2001Jan 2015

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