Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft | Building and Scaling Mission‑Critical Build Infrastructure for Azure & Windows
I'm a senior software engineer with 7.5 years building large-scale infrastructure, security platforms, and developer tooling at Microsoft in Seattle. I specialize in build systems, cloud infrastructure, supply chain security, and technical leadership.
Built and evolved core infrastructure for Microsoft's unified build and release platform used by 50K+ developers across Azure, Windows, Xbox, and Office to run 250K+ builds per day.
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Led developer teams to develop Azure's disaster recovery system end-to-end, enabling rebuilds of critical services after catastrophic outages and protecting business continuity for Azure customers.
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Drove critical Windows security compliance work required to maintain eligibility for U.S. government contracts, protecting $10B+ in revenue. Led cross-organization teams to deliver end-to-end enforcement features.
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Built centralized ownership and compliance platforms across 2K+ Windows packages, translating ambiguous requirements into streamlined audits and mitigated risk.
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Mentored 10 junior and intern engineers, guiding technical career development and resulting in successful internal promotions and return offers.
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Conducted 50+ technical and behavioral interviews for SDE roles, contributing to the organization’s growth.
Led cross-functional teams of 3-4 engineers to drive team’s service reliability from 50% to >99% by creating its first telemetry framework, reducing time-to-detect for impacting issues.
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Modernized legacy build infrastructure serving 20K+ developers, reducing build times by up to 2 hours per pipeline and eliminating weeks of maintenance overhead annually through cloud-native migrations and comprehensive automation.
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Improved the supply chain security of Windows by implementing software provenance tracking, reducing dependency vulnerabilities and streamlining compliance audits.
Developed automated maintenance for build agent pools, improving build consistency, security, and reliability and saving 40+ hours / week of manual effort for the team.
Developed high-traffic React features with 50,000+ daily clicks and scaled Scala microservices supporting 1,000,000s of users via LinkedIn and Facebook APIs.
