# Kanchana P.

> Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

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

Versatile Senior/Lead Software Engineer at Microsoft Teams with a strong product mindset and a passion for solving complex, real-world problems. I lead through ownership and influence—thriving in ambiguous problem spaces, ramping up quickly on new technologies, and driving solutions end-to-end from concept to delivery. I proactively stepped into Android development within Teams, rapidly building deep expertise and delivering impactful, user-focused features at scale. My broad engineering background, including experience with React and C#, enables me to adapt quickly and create impact across evolving technology stacks. I’m known for strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and close collaboration with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-quality results.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead - Microsoft Teams @ Microsoft
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Newfront Insurance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developing and deploying containerized Nest.js docker applications using Typescript, Node.js, React.js

### Lead Software Engineer @ QuinStreet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Foster City, California, United States
Conducts daily standups using agile methodologies
Worked on carrier integrations that would bring in a projected revenue increase of 90% over next few years
Added new RESTful API to be able to get auto insurance rates and be able to purchase policies using C#, .Net, SQL server, XML and XSLT allowing company to be a leader in offering purchase of policies as third-party vendor
Resolved issues with Progressive integration to show comparison quotes from other carriers which resulted in increased business opportunities
Added new RESTful API to be able to get auto insurance rates and be able to purchase policies using C#, .Net, SQL server, XML and XSLT allowing company to be a leader in offering purchase of policies as third-party vendor
Refactored code for third-party vendor to make use of polling API and change synchronous code to async optimizing server response time from 35 sec to 5 sec
Showed real enthusiasm in leading and mentoring people and bringing tasks to completion
Consistently meets deadlines and expectations
Refactored legacy code to make it more modular and remove deadwood code
Rearchitected the existing system to make front end DB driven instead of XML driven
Integrated carrier APIs for new insurance carriers which increased profits by 30%
Reduced production errors from 1000 a day to none

### Software Engineer @ Innovation River
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, Canada

### Software Engineer - Founder @ Ecommerce Startup
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Worked on social media micro-consulting platform Pick-My-Brain that would bring together
people’s social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Linked along with some others like
GitHub, Stack Overflow and offer services to people in exchange of fees charged by the consultant
on hourly or per session basis.
Worked with REST API to connect Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn APIs.
Refactored and maintained existing back end and front end code
Wrote blogging code
Integration with third party tools such as for Shopping cart and emailing
Worked with Google Analytics, Adwords, Advertising, etc.
Build responsive websites using Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript, HTML for front end.
Designed and developed database tables, stored procedures, functions, etc.

### Software Developer @ VERICO Canada
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

### Software Engineer @ Accenture acquired Octagon Research Solutions
Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View, California, United States
Develop EDC (Electronic Data Capture) clinical research studies using C# and .Net Framework
Involved with management of software code base and code versioning.
Served as Technical Project Lead, prepared technical project plans, etc.
Provided technical support for software application issues.
Improved the load time for web-based EDC system.
Coordinate with off-site teams, project managers and Quality Control team.
Developed database and business logic.
Developed SQL stored procedures and maintained existing ones, and wrote SQL queries.
Worked on UI code written in JavaScript

### Programmer Analyst @ Oracle acquired Taleo Corp. acquired Universum Inc.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco, California, United States
Maintenance of WetFeet Recruiter™ Software (WFR) - a web-based recruitment management
system used to streamline candidate sourcing, screening, and management processes.
Worked on a project to integrate PeopleAnswers™ (PA) software with WFR.
Wrote web services application using .NET and C#.
Used ASP.NET, C#.NET, SOAP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, SQL server.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS
Master Of Science

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Prodyogiki Vishwavidyalaya


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kanchanapradhan

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Last updated: 2026-03-31