# Mirza Sikander > Building planetary compute systems Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mirza ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Present | Bellevue, Washington, United States Built and optimized Global Service Placer (GSP), enabling seamless geo-distributed service placement for cloud-scale infrastructure. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States 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. ### Software Development Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Bellevue 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). ### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Bellevue 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. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bellevue, WA 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. ### Web Developer @ University of Southern California Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Los Angeles, CA Developed a video-centric website powered by Node.js. Employed Foundation for responsive web design. Optimized website for iPad and tablet PCs. Used bandwidth detection to provide adaptive bitrate streaming. Operated in diverse team environment. Collaborated with film producers, designers and engineers. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Intel Corporation Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Hillsboro, OR Architected a scalable telemetry framework to collect real-time statistics from devices and application. Key features of the system included constant storage footprint, automatic data aggregation, REST endpoints for web apps and UDP endpoints for devices. Created a management portal which provides actionable data and visualization to aid in analytics and business intelligence. Incorporated Intel Identity services using Oauth protocol to provide federated access to the portal. Created a web interface for real-time geo-location tracking using websockets. Leveraged geospatial indexing capability of MongoDB. ### Web Application Intern @ Moat Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Developed a web interface (dashboard) which serves as a quality assurance tool allowing backend administrators to test and visualize client specific data in a fast and accessible manner. Reduced analysis time by 50%. ### Robotics Research Assistant @ University of Southern California Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Investigated the potential of robotics as a teaching aid in Computer Science education aimed at college students and middle school children. Lectured students in C++. Helped them debug routines for their personal robot. Worked in a team of 4. ### Web Application Developer @ University of Southern California Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Developed a video player using HTML5 web technology, which allows for two videos to be played concurrently on same webpage in a synchronized manner. The application assisted in helping determine temporal patterns in the videos associated with community recovery from natural disasters. ### Tutor @ TRIO Upward Bound Program & ACES Program Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Tutored at Mount San Antonio College and two high schools. The subjects covered were Mathematics, Calculus, Chemistry and Physics. Mainly aided students from low income backgrounds and first generation college students. Worked in a team of 3. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science University of Southern California Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of Southern California Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Institute of Business Administration Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mirzasikander --- Source: https://flows.cv/mirza JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mirza/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22