# Sapna Kothari

> Sr. Member of Architecture team at Microsoft

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sapnakothari

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer (Architect) @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Present

### Sr. Member of Architecture team @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Present
Working with MIX team in Cloud+AI org. 
Projects: Led Business continuity and disaster recovery effort for services to reduce recovery time on failure. Helped with implementation of Data abstraction layer on top of CosmosDB, Azure Blob. Driving design to standardize and expand capabilities for Partner Center public APIs. Also, co-driving declarative ingestion effort for increasing the velocity of new features and extensibility of existing ones.

### Software Engineer @ Open Source Projects
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Games/Apps

### Software Engineer @ Barracuda Networks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | Campbell, CA
Working on network security technologies: web filter and firewall

### Protocol Software Engineer @ Dell Services
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San jose
Working on Data center and cloud technologies; VLT, Multicast,

### Software Developer @ Cisco
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011
Worked on Lawful Intercept, ACL,Biscuit( 1:n tunnel), GRE, QOS, IOS-XR. Technologies: IPv4, IPv6, AAA, Radius, IPOE, PPPOE, L3VPN, MPLS. Router: CRS-1, CRS-3, ASR9K, GSR. Strong skills in programming.

### Sr. Software Developer @ Tellabs
Jan 2004 – Jan 2007
Routing software engineer. Working on LinceCard VPLS in particular. Features worked on: 802.3ad, STP and general cli. C, Unix and strong knowledge of protocol.


## Education
### MS in Computer Sc
The University of Texas at San Antonio

### BE in Computer Engineering
Veermata Jijabai Institute of technology(VJTI, Mumbai)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sapna-kothari-31814b1

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Last updated: 2026-04-12