# Nikita Bahl

> Software Engineer II at Microsoft

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
• Contribute and lead a part of the group of very high-scale, resilient and RESTful backend microservices for Commercial
and Consumer Licensing that provide licenses to Microsoft customers. The responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing new features with e2e testing to support business needs for higher revenue and impact.
- Maintaining security through regular pipeline deployments to fix vulnerabilities in container images and nodes.
- Creating CI/CD pipelines for deploying to public and sovereign clouds along with automated Azure ARM templates.
- Contributing to the on-call rotations to support 4 9s reliability with troubleshooting and debugging production issues.
- Improve the observability solution for CELS services through Log Analytics workspace-based monitors/alerts, metrics-based alerts/monitors, outside-in monitoring using Synthetic tests, and efficient logging for services.
• Led cross-team collaboration to reduce operational costs by $30K annually for Microsoft’s digital fulfillment flow
entailing the redesign of the architecture, creating/updating APIs, integration testing, creating dashboards/monitors.
• Drove revenue $17M monthly by leading end-to-end responsibilities - encompassing design, development, security
compliance & privacy, and successful deployment of new digital attach service flows for Microsoft business.
• Engineered an outside-in observability solution for high-scale Commerce production services to prevent impact by failing
over traffic based on reliability metrics thus preventing major business impact.
• Reduced production database cost to 55 percent by running an Azure Synapse pipeline using CosmosDb connector to delete stale data from a database of about 18TB.
Stack: Azure Kubernetes, service mesh using Istio, Powershell/Bash, Helm, CosmosDb NoSQL database,
ATM traffic manager routing, Azure monitoring, Logging solutions, Distributed systems.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Redmond, Washington
• Implemented a large-scale load testing environment from the ground up, employed across multiple services to ensure
system preparedness for peak traffic events and new launches.
• Designed and implemented REST APIs for a microservice that mints certificates used by Istio Kubernetes clusters.
• Developed a Kubernetes agent that renews trust domain certificates automatically for production clusters.
• Designed a validation pipeline with cross-team effort to perform E2E tests on clusters before production deployment.

### Graduate Student Assistant @ Arizona State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Tempe
GSA for SER 321: Principles of Distributed Software Systems in Spring 2019
GSA for SER222: Data Structures and Algorithms in Fall 2018
TA for CSE 230: Computer Organization and Architecture in Spring 2018
GSA for CSE 230: Computer Organization and Architecture in Fall 2017

### Core Services R&D Intern @ SAP Concur
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
• Developed microservices ‘Approvals’ and ‘Trip Store’ for the travel product to book a trip and do the approval flow.
• Implemented an algorithm for spatial search of a hotel and book it using REST API and storing it in DynamoDB.
• Used Google’s Geocoding API to find address and hotels in a range of a few miles based on latitudes and longitudes.

### Application Developer @ Accenture
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India
• Developed software for agile application software version upgrade thus increasing features for client applications.
• Enabled reporting capabilities for management by developing a tracking tool for work done using SQL queries and C#.
• Developed web applications using MVC design in .Net and C#.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Software Engineering
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikitabahl
- GitHub: https://github.com/Nikitabahl

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Last updated: 2026-03-22