Built and optimized Global Service Placer (GSP), enabling seamless geo-distributed service placement for cloud-scale infrastructure.

Lead developer for Azure Kubernetes service on Azure Edge zones. Designed and developed services to allow low latency container workloads to run on the edge. Led a team of 5. Contributed to Kubernetes open-source project. Collaborated with teams across the Azure stack: compute, networking, and storage. Required multi-semester planning and alignment across teams.

Gaming Cloud:

Designed and developed an elastic compute infrastructure for distributed deep reinforcement learning. Allowed for shared clusters that could scale up to 500 GPU nodes. Led to reduction in training time by up to 75%.

Drove and facilitated cross-team collaboration between Microsoft Research, Playfab, Gaming studios, Azure ML and Windows to enable novel gaming experiences powered by deep machine learning.

Utilized container technologies to enable rapid iteration and deployment of different machine learning frameworks. Worked in multiple first party game code bases to add command interfaces that allowed interactive agent control. Introduced CI/CD which automated building, publishing of containers and managing test runs directly contributing to the quality of the codebase and agility.

Business Application Group:

Lead a squad of 4 to build targeted capabilities that directly accrue to enterprise customers’ ability to uptake the latest release of Dynamics 365 Retail. Worked closely with the Solution Architects, PMs, partners and directly with customer to design and incrementally build features, and extensibility points in POS SPA (Typescript and Knockout).

Developed a themeable cross-platform mobile app using Xamarin that would serve as the basis for Retailers to publish a consumer facing app. Contributed extensively to the architecture for the application and the test infrastructure. Developed various features such as authentication, product browsing, order history management and cart management.

Contributed to the successful migration of Retail and Commerce ERP headquarters solution from on-prem to Azure cloud, and release to market. Enhanced user experience, and tuned performance around Channel and Catalog management for Omni-channel setup. Created responsive HTML5 based controls for Dynamics AX 7 using framework similar to Knockout.js. Enabled integration and bulk import scenarios by creating and maintaining over 250 data entities. Drove the efforts for evaluating DocumentDB as a NoSQL backing store for store operations.

Developed a customer companion app for Microsoft Dynamics AX retail platform geared towards enhancing customer shopping experience. Employed the latest windows phone application platform services such as Cortana voice activation, deep linking and geo fencing.