# Parushi Sharma > Software Engineer II Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/parushi Software engineer skilled in system architecture, performance optimization, automation, API design, and machine learning - focused on solving complex problems to create impactful solutions. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 SDE 2 for Microsoft's Data & AI Platform Team, developing an internal platform toolkit designed to make entire lifecycle of data insight creation & management more scaleable and efficient. Improved platform security and functionality by removing plaintext secrets, implementing UAMI support, enhancing Logic Apps with renewal email functionality to reduce processing time, and supporting the Access Management Module to align with v2 product goals and system onboarding. ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 SDE 2 for Microsoft's Data Insights & Analysis Team, developing real-time processing infrastructure, POC implementations, and robust monitoring solutions for pipelines. Promoted within the same title band, reflecting advanced responsibility, leadership, and expertise. Implemented configuration-based paging for four production APIs, reducing response time by 59%; automated 80% of manual onboarding for real-time data sources using Azure Durable Functions, saving 960 person-hours; and enhanced monitoring coverage by ~30% by building latency, throughput, and failure detection solutions with PowerBI, ADX, and Spark Applications. ### Software Engineer @ Kwartile Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Lead developer of a platform automating ETL pipeline applications by architecting the framework, library, and API, implementing key processors like deduplication and SQL Join, providing UI functionality, and integrating deployment workflows on Databricks, AWS Glue, and Spark-Standalone Cluster. Designed event logging to InfluxDB, MariaDB, and Amazon SES for dashboard views and notifications. Authored a white paper, presented demonstrations to clients, created sample workflows using DataMorph, and recorded informational videos to showcase the platform. Developed a proprietary ML framework, achieving 97% accuracy with an entity resolution model and deploying the integrated solution in Scala. ### Software Engineer Consultant at Nordstorm @ Kwartile Inc Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Consulted as a Kwartile Big Data Specialist with Nordstrom's Credit Team, designing high-level and detailed architecture documentation for scalable software solutions, collaborating with business analysts on event sourcing models, developing a reference application with Kafka, Java, and Spring Boot, deploying a POC with Docker/Kubernetes, setting up system monitoring with Data Dog and New Relic, and leading knowledge transfer sessions on big data practices and solution architecture. ### Volunteer Research Assistant @ University of California, Davis Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Researched under the guidance of Professor Samuel King in the security department. With the aim to utilize machine learning to better identification of unique users with consumer grade EEG devices, in order to improve authentication security. ### Software Engineer @ Thinking Books, LLC - Ankode Systems Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Davis, California Developed and tested the Ankur programming language, led Android development projects by creating automated build commands for Ankur-CLI to generate platform-specific binaries, conducted extensive modular testing and documentation of computer science concepts such as design patterns and algorithms, and delivered technical presentations to explain the language's fundamentals. ### Operations Engineer @ Sqord, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Worked under the head engineers on the DevOps team on company software and website. QA for products and testing in both staging and production among other tasks. Worked with professional setups such as Github to update/access code. ### Software Engineer @ Omniscience Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, California Tested custom-built clustering algorithm in Spark; evaluated against results of different data mining algorithms. Worked towards gathering relevant information for building a machine learning model. Responsible for documentation and development of a web crawler to gather relevant data. ### Instructor @ Dougherty Valley Speech and Debate Institute Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Ramon, California High school summer job as instructor teaching children aged 12-14 the fundamentals of public speaking, respectful argumentation, and creating a positive debate environment, equipping them with skills to enhance classroom debates and build confidence in expressing their ideas. ### Data Analyst @ imusti.com Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 High school internship at iMusti, which maintains the largest online database of Indian literature and music, I analyzed data to calculate optimal market prices for books, videos, and music, developed advertising strategies to enhance consumer engagement, assisted with data entry and administrative tasks using Microsoft Office tools, and updated data through resources like Amazon, Wizard, and AbeBooks. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of California, Davis ### Dougherty Valley High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/parushi --- Source: https://flows.cv/parushi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/parushi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29