# Pratyush Oak > Engineering at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) | Ex-Microsoft Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/pratyushoak ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Superhuman Jan 2025 – Present ### Engineering @ Grammarly Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Redmond, Washington, United States Azure Edge and Platform team: Led engineering for ML-powered auto outage declaration and alert deduplication systems, cutting incident triage time by 50% across Azure services Designed and shipped a GenAI-based Copilot prototype for on-call engineers in partnership with Microsoft Research, reducing outage mitigation time by 24%. Built highly available, geo-redundant web services with zero-downtime deployments, operating at scale with P9999 reliability. Facilitated structured team retrospectives that improved collaboration and drove operational process improvements across multiple engineering teams. Mentored junior engineers, conducted thorough code reviews, developed best practices for team for estimation of work, led design reviews, managed on-calls and incident postmortems ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 Tech lead for Microsoft Team Retrospectives, Azure DevOps extension for real-time retrospectives used by ~100k Azure DevOps orgs worldwide and 100k monthly active users. Now Open Sourced. Tech lead for Azure DevOps integration for a co-funded Silicon Valley startup’s Objective and Key Results platform, ensuring compliance with Microsoft security and engineering standards. Enabled 2,000+ Azure services to seamlessly track OKRs within engineering workflows, driving org-wide alignment and execution clarity Built key components of an internal developer analytics platform, including percentile filtering, productivity charts, and tool usage recommendations. Modernized CI/CD pipelines and telemetry dashboards using infrastructure-as-code, improving deployment reliability and compliance with internal security standards. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area Developed the end to end feature to automatically generate OpenAPI specification from json and yaml comments for Azure's internal API marketplace, enabling 300+ services to auto generate API docs Implemented an event-driven feature allowing internal Microsoft service teams(mainly Xbox and Azure) to publish OpenAPI specs to apidocs.microsoft.com using Azure Service Bus and Azure App Service for secure external partner(Facebook, Walmart) access Built a responsive UI for Microsoft's external-facing Open API portal using React and TypeScript, building a OpenApi Spec viewer(Swagger UI), user auth, inline execution of API ### Web Developer Intern @ Centurion Sports Media Group, LLC Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 • Built web application to host and share college football videos. Developed complete front end, integrating Bootstrap, CSS and JavaScript with Drupal PHP template engine to create responsive web pages • Involved in end-to-end design and development of product prototype. Implemented server setup, pre-launch database management, user account management, permissions and rules, payment gateway. ### Developer Intern @ BizSciences Pvt. Ltd Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Developed Android application to provide location based shopping services to user. Involved in the organization’s early foray into mobile services. Worked on Android app for data encoding and parsing of user data. ## Education ### Master's Degree in Computer Science North Carolina State University ### B.E in Information Science and Engineering PES University ### 12th National Public School ### 10th National Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pratyushoak --- Source: https://flows.cv/pratyushoak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/pratyushoak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11