Staff Software Engineer with experience in distributed systems, fintech platforms, cloud networking, building growth products and large-scale infrastructure. Experienced tech lead driving cross-functional initiatives spanning infrastructure, compliance, and global product teams.

2021 — NowMetaStaff Software Engineer

2021 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Messaging Payments Tech lead - building large scale platforms and products.

2020 — 2021MicrosoftSenior Software Engineer

2020 — 2021

Greater Seattle Area

Azure Software Defined Networking, Virtual network

2018 — 2020MicrosoftSoftware Engineer 2

2018 — 2020

Greater Seattle Area

Azure Software Defined Networking - Virtual Networks

Distributed Systems, Microservices, Networking, Azure, Cloud

Improving azure platform, building customer-facing products and driving features like Service Endpoint policies and Private Link.

Reduced memory leak and usage, improved latency and scale of products with optimizations, implemented local caching with event-driven pubsub model, build multi-tenant distributed service on Service Fabric with grpc, broke legacy monoliths into microservices to reduce blast radius and improve deployment velocity, improved security by migrating certificates to certificate management system, improved on-call with automations, improved dev experience by driving fix of flaky tests.

Technical speaker at WomenTechGlobal Conference 2020 and Women in Tech Ragatta Seattle Conference 2020

https://www.womentech.net/speaker/Shefali/Garg

https://seattlewitregatta2020.sched.com/event/b73ee35d95782a55f7715731efd5bdb1?fbclid=IwAR3Kwoh9NxqP87ATWDT4_JShv5qQtoqgOMo645x9BakLEu8vtzGk9YWCaek

2017 — 2018MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2017 — 2018

Greater Seattle Area

Azure Software-defined Networking

(1) Migrated certificates to distributed certificate management system to keep azure machines secure.

(2) One of contributors of VNet global peering project - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/global-vnet-peering-general-availability/

(3) Owner of Service endpoint policies project. Led, implemented the project end-to-end to the GA - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-service-endpoint-policies-overview

(4) Created multi-tenant scalable distributed service on Azure Service Fabric required to improve switch/TOR programming.

(5) Main contributor of Azure Private Link

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/private-link/

Owning and driving features for V2

2015 — 2017MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2015 — 2017

Vancouver, Canada Area

(1) Implemented UI test automation framework using Selenium to write observers for the monitoring of the website https://support.office.com/

(2) Template content management system for https://templates.office.com and desktop clients

An internal tool to assist template authors in managing and publishing their templates to various office clients and website.

One of the authors of TCMS V2. Implemented database layer (using DbContext, entity), publishing (azure blobs), unit tests (Moq, unity IOC), deploying and fixing bugs.

(3) Education Connector

A middle-tier service which unifies a high-level application with many learning management systems (LMS).

Implemented some LMS and their unit and integration tests, create load test framework, drive penetration testing with Casaba, helped in Geneva onboarding, Standard Operating Procedures, etc.

(4) Write ideas (IOS Mobile App)

https://news.microsoft.com/features/write-ideas-new-app-microsoft-garage-helps-students-bring-ideas-page/

Implemented features, worked with designers to improve UI and design, used profiler to detect and resolve memory leak and performance issues, organized bug bash, fixed bugs, manage QE and OSS, released to hockey App, test flight and App Store.

Education

2011 — 2015

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

2011 — 2015

2008 — 2009

Alwar Public School

High School

2008 — 2009

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

High School