Software Engineer Ii

Avinash Agarwal

Software Engineer II Cloud & Distributed Systems Data Engineering & AI

+1-425-***-**** **********@*****.*** ï avinash-agarwal95 Redmond, WA - 98052, United States

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-driven Software Engineer with 6+ years of industry leading experience in cloud computing, distributed systems, and data pipelines. Proven track record of designing and managing high-volume distributed systems processing billions of notifications daily while optimizing for performance and scalability and collaborating across different teams and disciplines. Passionate about and seeking opportunities to work on scalable and distributed cloud solutions, as well as data engineering and AI.

EXPERIENCE

• Azure Core, Microsoft Feb 2022 - Present

Software Engineer II Redmond, WA, United States

Skills/Technologies used: Distributed systems, Cloud Computing (Azure, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Storage), Backend (.NET) and Frontend (React, TypeScript) development, database systems (Kusto, Cosmos DB), big data analytics (Event Streaming, KQL, Azure Synapse, Python, Scala), DevOps (CI/CD, PowerShell)

Led migration of a streaming data pipeline (1B+ daily notifications) to its dedicated scale unit - Involved sophisticated design, careful cross-team planning and execution.

Significantly reduced partition skewness in data-ingestion pipelines, achieving over 30% improvement in compute and network efficiency.

Profiled and optimized high-contention services eliminating bottlenecks and achieving nearly 10% improvement in compute / memory efficiency.

Designed and deployed new features, metadata enhancements and optimizations to the Change payload with extensive collaboration across teams and disciplines.

Delivered General Availability for the Change Analysis back-end by timely deploying the entire service into National/Secret Clouds, ahead of an important Gartner cloud review.

Delivered General Availability for the Change Analysis front-end (live on the Azure portal) by improving performance Lighthouse scores, setting up CI/CD, automated tests, etc.

Improved on-call efficiency with multiple improvements to internal monitors, documentations, etc.

• Azure Global, Microsoft June 2018 - Feb 2022

Software Engineer Hyderabad, TN, India

Skills/Technologies used: Distributed systems, Cloud Computing (Azure, App services, Storage), DevOps

(CI/CD, ARM Templates, PowerShell, Git), Backend development (.NET), Frontend development (React, TypeScript, Xamarin, Android), Databases and Caching (SQL, Cosmos DB, Redis), Search Technologies (Azure Cognitive Search), Azure Frontdoor, CDN, and system design.

Optimized core service APIs, achieving nearly 20x improvement in throughput by optimizing SQL queries, avoiding extra network calls and in-memory caching.

Integrated Azure Search and Azure Cognitive services to deliver scalable & intelligent search capabilities over large amounts of heterogeneous data.

Significantly improved page loading performance by designing a robust BCDR, firewall and global load balancing solution using Azure Front Door, CDN caching and API response compression.

Designed and implemented scalable monitoring infrastructure, using Event Hubs and Azure Data Explorer, to centralize telemetry and diagnostic logs, enabling efficient querying and dashboards.

Delivered Public Preview by automating end-to-end deployments of all dependent services and publishing the final offering on the Azure Marketplace.

Designed/implemented generic APIs facilitating seamless migration of over 160M customer records to Azure.

Worked on security/privacy reviews for relevant services across the stack.

Designed and delivered end-to-end features and bug fixes spanning data, service, and front-end components.

Mentored interns, peer-reviewed technical design documents and proactively collaborated with partner teams.

• The Garage, Microsoft May 2016 - July 2016

Software Engineering Internship Hyderabad, TN, India

Built and deployed Azure-hosted chat-bots using the Microsoft Bot Framework. Used OpenCV and LUIS to auto-extract form data from user-uploaded documents and natural language.

• Xerox Research Centre, India Dec 2015 - Jan 2016 Data Science Internship Bengaluru, KA, India

Trained and evaluated neural-network models (using Python, NumPy, Pandas, XGBoost etc.) for predicting mortality and health complications among ICU patients. EDUCATION

• Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) - Varanasi July 2013 - May 2018 B.Tech & M.Tech: Mathematics And Computing Varanasi, India

Teaching Assistant for the freshman course on Mathematical Methods.

Thesis: Deep Learning Based Classification of Handwritten Mathematical Symbols

Skills/Technologies used: Pandas, NumPy, TensorFlow, Keras, CNNs, Scikit-learn, AWS etc.

Trained transfer learning models achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on the HasyV2 dataset. CERTIFICATIONS & SPECIALIZATIONS

• DeepLearning.AI: Generative AI For Software Development March 2025

• University of Alberta & Amii: Reinforcement Learning Specialization Oct 2020

• DeepLearning.AI: Deep Learning Specialization April 2018 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Competitive Programming

Qualified for and represented IIT (BHU) Varanasi at ACM-ICPC 2016 Regionals

Qualified for and represented IIT (BHU) Varanasi at ACM-ICPC 2015 Regionals

Ranked 15th worldwide (2nd in India) in Codeforces Round 410

Finalist of GS Quantify 2016 (2nd in India), a flagship event, organized by Goldman Sachs

Ranked 83rd worldwide in Google Kickstart Round D 2017

Ranked 1st in COPS-OPC-2015, a programming contest organized by the club of programmers at IIT (BHU)

Ranked 1st in CodeDef 2016, a coding contest organized in Udyam, a college festival of IIT (BHU)

• Academic

All India Rank 496 in Joint Entrance Examination - JEE (MAINS) - 2013, among 1.3 million candidates

All India Rank 1672 in IIT-JEE (ADVANCED) - 2013, among 150k candidates

All India Rank 6357 in National Eligibility cum Entrance Tests (NEET) - 2013, among 650k candidates

Achieved Rank 1 in Medical stream of Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination - 2013

Achieved Rank 2 in Engineering stream of Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination - 2013

Scored 97.4% (6th at the state level) in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination (AISSCE) - 2013

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