# Jaikishan R. > Engineer @ Microsoft Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jaikishan Software engineer focused on distributed systems, API design, and data platforms on Microsoft Azure. Skilled in architecting scalable cloud services, optimizing reliability, and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, production-grade solutions. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft Cost Management - Designed and delivered a unified cost estimation API used across Microsoft cloud services, driving consistent pricing and cost visibility. - Architected a scalable, Spark-based data aggregation layer supporting configurable rollups and low-latency analytical queries for large-scale cost datasets. - Championed distributed system design reviews, API architecture standards, and data pipeline best practices across cross-functional teams. ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft Cost Management - Architected and implemented a distributed Spark pipeline for large-scale budget evaluation, reducing alert latency from hours to under an hour and improving responsiveness for enterprise customers. - Led the separation of Budgets APIs and related workflows from a shared monolithic service into an independent service, increasing reliability and accelerating deployments. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington, United States Microsoft Cost Management ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Redmond Microsoft Azure Marketplace - Served as backend subject-matter expert for marketplace services, designing large-scale processing jobs and API integrations. - Migrated marketplace offer data to a modern commerce catalog API, ensuring data integrity, feature parity, and zero downtime across global storefronts. - Built and integrated the first co-sell catalog service, extending ingestion pipelines and exposing new APIs to make partner offers available in AppSource storefronts. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Vancouver, Canada Area Azure Marketplace - Developed an automated pipeline to streamline storefront nominations processing, improving reliability, observability, and operational efficiency. - Migrated marketplace services to upgraded Azure hosting environments with zero downtime, improving reliability and reducing deployment times through phased regional rollouts. ### Software Developer Internship @ ShareChat Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bangalore, India Back-end development using Node.js, JavaScript and Amazon Web Services (Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache). ### Software Engineering Internship @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Software development for Visual Studio Online's code search platform using HTML, CSS, TypeScript and C#. ### Web Development Internship @ Monet Networks Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Monet Networks Inc. (at IIT Kanpur E-Cell) REST, JavaScript. ## Education ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### St. Stephen's School, Ajmer Jan 1997 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jaikishan-r-97b4828a --- Source: https://flows.cv/jaikishan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaikishan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22