Hi, I am Vatsa. I am someone with a profound passion for solving problems through software. With strong fundamentals in CS, I like to work on software solutions that can scale. I have had the chance to take on challenging problems across the stack and can wear multiple hats.

2025 — NowMicrosoft AIMember of Technical Staff

2025 — Now

Redmond, Washington, United States

AI Lab

2022 — 2025MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2022 — 2025

Redmond, Washington, United States

Azure Serverless Platform

2021 — 2022NewfrontSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2022

San Francisco, California, United States

2021 — 2021MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2021

Seattle, Washington, United States

Azure Compute - Availability Platform team

2021 — 2021MealMe, Inc.Software Engineer

2021 — 2021

San Francisco, California, United States

Optimized backend services, reducing the app load time from 17s to 2s, boosting app retention by 3x.

Architected and developed custom crawlers to crawl metadata for 1.5M restaurants in the US from 15 different services.

Developed an algorithm using NLP to merge the same restaurant's menu from different services to accurately calculate cheapest deals with 92% merge accuracy.

Designed a custom search engine using fastText NLP and BM25 accelerated by NMSLIB.

Education

San José State University

Master's degree

San José State University

Experience+

Education

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree