Vikas Sharma

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

14+ years in scalable cloud-native application design.
Expert in microservices architecture and full-stack development.
Proven track record at Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with strong microservices and data engineering skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesMicrosoft AzureAmazon Web Services (aws)C++

Other Skills

AI AgentsAlgorithmsAnthropic ClaudeApache SparkAzure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)CC#Computer NetworksContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cross-functional AlignmentCross-functional Team LeadershipCross-team CollaborationData StructuresDigital Design Automation

About

Principal Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing scalable, cloud-native applications on AWS and Azure. Expert in microservices architecture, full-stack web development (Ruby on Rails), and distributed systems. Proven track record in delivering high-impact solutions at Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle.

Experience

14 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

OpenTelemetry Processing Tool: Architected and led the development of a highly scalable and distributed solution processing over 2.5 billion OTel traces/hour to generate latency and reliability metrics; leveraged by Azure core services to proactively detect performance issues and ensure over 99% SLA attainment.
Migration to OTel: Spearheaded the migration of Azure observability tools from fragmented, service- specific logging to a unified OpenTelemetry-based solution—orchestrating cross-team collaboration and stakeholder alignment to reduce service onboarding time from 2 months to 2 days (97% faster).
AI-Powered RCA Automation: Built LLM-driven tool to transform plain-English RCA rules into C# code, enabling customers to define custom diagnostics and improve root cause accuracy.
Customer Enablement: Designed and developed an OpenTelemetry Validation Tool, empowering customers to proactively self-diagnose instrumentation gaps and streamline onboarding; leading a cross-functional team to drive operational efficiency and reduce support overhead.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipGitHub CopilotAnthropic ClaudeCross-team CollaborationCross-functional AlignmentContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)+8

Amazon

Senior Software Development Engineer

Sep 2019 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Data Transformation Pipeline: Built a scalable and distributed Data Transformation Pipeline, which processes the brand websites data, performs attribute mappings using Machine Learning models and enriches Amazon catalog; achieved an 86% end-to-end cycle time reduction for data transformation, while processing 6K+ brands/year with 100M+ products.
Microservice in Native AWS: Designed and developed a microservice on Native AWS cloud platform to publish brand level data to Amazon catalog.
Microservice using Spark: Designed and developed a microservice using Apache Spark based application, which queries the Big Data cluster and ingest data from external source to data pipeline.
Orchestration Layer: Designed and built an orchestration layer for our data pipeline, which connects different micro-services using AWS step functions.

Python (Programming Language)Cross-functional Team LeadershipJavaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data StructuresMachine Learning+6

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2016 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Provisioning Service Automation: Developed and maintained provisioning web service and automation tools for AWS infrastructure to manage availability and scalability of AWS services.
Architecture redesign: Designed and implemented a new software architecture for Master-slaves sync mechanism (AresXenSync) which helped migrate Kickstart, a Tier-1 service, to Amazon repositories (AReS).
Monitoring Alarms: Implemented the metrics generation and monitoring alarms system to capture and notify any irregularities in the provisioning workflows, which are responsible for end-to-end server builds in Amazon datacenters worldwide.
New datacenter build: Developed a set of ruby scripts that reduced the time required to build provisioning infrastructure for new datacenter cluster by 75% on average. Launched 3 new datacenters.

Python (Programming Language)JavaDocker ProductsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data StructuresCross-team Collaboration+2

Oracle

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2012 – Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Santa Clara, CA

CDC Analysis: Lead developer (C++) for an in-house software tool for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) analysis in SPARC processors.
Tools Flow Automation: Designed and developed the automation script to run all the RTL-level tools, analyze their results and email the summary to designers, whenever the processors design changes.
Integrated Analysis: Designed a simulation tool to integrate power, timing and thermal analysis results to generate an efficient dynamic IR drop map; enabling designers with better margins to design faster circuits.

C++Data Structures