# Khushboo S. > Software Engineer at Netflix Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/khushboos I am a software engineer with over 9 years of experience in building scalable and distributed systems. I specialize in Cloud-Based Distributed Systems, Service Architecture and Design, DevOps, and Agile Project Management. I find joy in seeing my customers succeed, and therefore, my main focus is to find solutions to their problems in order to help them achieve their goals more efficiently. I am also passionate about Diversity and Inclusion and am committed to supporting women in Tech. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States Working on Payment Integrations and Optimizations at Netflix. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Redmond, Washington, United States Worked on Azure Fluid Relay (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/fluid-relay), which provides a real-time collaboration platform. Developers can leverage this platform to build their applications. I have experience in building distributed systems using technologies such as Kubernetes, Redis, MongoDB, Azure Storage (Blob Object Storage), Kafka, Azure Key Vault, CosmosDB (similar to DynamoDB), and Azure Service Bus (similar to SQS). I have led several feature crews in our team to build features with high availability, reliability, and maintainability. Additionally, I specialize in building load testing frameworks to measure the reliability and scalability of distributed systems. In my role as a security and privacy champion for my team, I address service level agreements related to security and privacy for our customers. Furthermore, I am actively involved in mentoring engineers on the team to support their professional development. ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States I worked on the open-source Microsoft Fluid Framework (https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework), a real-time collaboration platform. Developers can build their web applications on top of this framework. I contributed to the implementation of ordering real-time collaboration messages over a socket connection, gaining expertise in technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Linkerd, Blob Storage, and Redis as part of this project. Additionally, I have led multiple feature crews, playing a key role in designing and implementing critical features, such as rate-limiting and an authorization framework for the Fluid Framework. ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Redmond, Washington, United States I worked in the Microsoft Office team to build the Reply @mention feature, allowing users to respond to @mentions in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with 99.9% reliability. This feature is utilized by millions of Office customers globally, facilitating effective collaboration on the same document. I leveraged the latest technologies, such as Microsoft Azure Service Fabric and Azure Storage solutions, to empower our customers in achieving their goals through Microsoft Office products. ### Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad Area, India I continued working on Engineering Security and Release Platform, hosted on Azure Service Fabric. This involved setting up of multiple data centers, strategizing phased roll outs, building telemetry and automated monitoring systems, etc. I led and mentored a feature crew of 3 junior engineers to deliver Malware Scanning, Orchestration of workflows and Release Storage features. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India Using Microsoft Azure Service Fabric, I designed and built Release features on ESRP (Engineering Security and Release Platform) used to release Microsoft products. I developed the workflow that validated the product for quality and compliance before release, employing technologies like CosmosDb, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Fabric Stateful & Stateless Services and Service identities. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India As part of the Distribution and Storage team, I worked on developing static links capability in downloading Microsoft products. I developed a feature to allow a server to indicate from where Microsoft products could be permitted to download, using CORS headers. I led a feature crew of 3 to develop an OData Web API endpoint (to retrieve old product releases from the Release Platform), and an automated testing framework to measure its reliability. This testing framework was integrated with AzureDevOps build and deployment pipelines using PowerShell. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India As a member of the Product Release Security and Services team at Microsoft, I contributed to an application designed to validate Microsoft product releases for security and compliance. Specifically, I enhanced the application to process requests from tax-compliant regions, resulting in significant cost savings, amounting to millions of dollars. ### Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad Area, India Built an UI Test Automation Framework for a virtual information center application that allows information to be shared between Microsoft and Microsoft Dynamics partners. ### Managing Committee @ IECSE, Manipal Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Manipal Intitute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka As part of IECSE, I organized Prometheus 2013, a 3-day technical fest which includes online and offline coding competitions, online scavenger hunts and many other fun but brain teasing games. IECSE is the official student club of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of Manipal Institute of Technology, India that conducts a number of workshops, open talks, and competitions, etc related to the field of Computer Science. ### Working Committee @ IECSE, Manipal Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka IECSE, the official student club of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of Manipal Institute of Technology, India, conducts a number of workshops, open talks, and competitions, etc related to the field of Computer Science. As a member of IECSE, I organised a workshop on Adobe Photoshop and an intra-university coding competition for all students. ## Education ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science Manipal Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Sacred Heart Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh Jan 1997 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/khushboo-sharma93 --- Source: https://flows.cv/khushboos JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/khushboos/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22