# Charanya Sivakumar

> Principal Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charanya

Enthusiastic software architect/developer! Currently empowering individuals and organizations to achieve more by designing and developing world-class products in the Microsoft M365 Big Data Engineering space using Azure!

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Empowering individuals and organizations to achieve more by designing and developing world-class products in the M365 Big Data Engineering space using Azure!

I am a core member of the M365 copilot development foundation platform working actively on online A/B experimentation engineering solutions and maintenance using Azure infrastructure

### Member Of Technical Staff @ PayPal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Lead engineer with cross-functional collaboration on core payments initiatives
Design transaction planning to enable payment processing using multiple external instruments
Design point of sale related transaction planning using topup, direct funding instruments
Design and develop transaction planning for processing single messaging system instruments on dual messaging systems
Next-gen platform redesign for better scalability and faster time to market

### Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Jose
Develop scalable microservices from monolith architecture
Design and develop core payment planning functionalities involving transaction planning nuances like cross-currency, sender side fee

### Lead Software Engineer @ PIORION SOLUTIONS INC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, California, United States
User risk vulnerability detection and mitigation: core engineer in developing tools that detect vulnerabilities in payment flows and designed solutions to mitigate them

### Senior Software Engineer @ Computer Sciences Corporation
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | eBay Inc, Chennai/ San Jose
Working for/at eBay India eCommerce domain on Trust and Safety

Worked in the seller registration and verification team as software engineer developing some cool verification processes for newer sellers registering on eBay

### Software Engineer @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | India
Fujitsu Inc: Worked for Fujitsu Inc in maintaining the network
management system
KLA-Tencor: Worked on semi-conductor anomaly detection
tool


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Sathyabama University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charanya-sivakumar-97682843

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Last updated: 2026-04-12