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• Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

  Jul, 2026 - Present

  Core engineering owner for a new escalation- and security-sensitive product domain, establishing scalable reliability frameworks and secure operating models.

  • Security & Code Hardening: Rapidly audited unfamiliar codebases, remediating critical vulnerabilities and hardening production cloud resources to enforce strict zero-trust access controls.

  • Reliability Engineering: Designed and executed systemic reliability blueprints to aggressively drive down customer escalations in high-volume processing paths, instituting robust application-level encryption standards for sensitive tenant data.

  • Engineering Operating Model: Established foundational on-call rotation structures, incident triage workflows, and cross-functional team collaboration guidelines optimized for agent-driven software development workflows.

  • AI-Driven Velocity: Spearheaded team enablement sessions on leveraging AI-assisted coding tools and LLM agents to compress onboarding cycles and accelerate feature delivery pipelines.

• Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

  Jun, 2022 - Jun, 20264 years

  Architected, scaled, and operated distributed data pipelines processing billions of daily events to surface complex insider-risk signals across global cloud infrastructures.

  • Flagship Data Architecture Migration: Led multi-engineer architectural migration of the Activity Explorer data store from legacy search platforms to Kusto (Azure Data Explorer) across public and sovereign clouds, eliminating deprecation risks, slashing COGS, and achieving zero customer-visible regressions.

  • Live-Site Incident Leadership: Exercised critical crisis judgment during active search-cluster instability by accelerating Kusto traffic cutover by three weeks, instantly terminating user impact and averting executive escalation; engineered automated retention management, multi-year purge pipelines, and cross-cluster discrepancy monitors.

  • Enterprise Security Governance (SFI): Acted as organization-wide Security Champion driving compliance and vulnerability closure under Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI); represented the product group in an elite leadership-chartered rapid response security squad.

  • Identity & Threat Prevention: Spearheaded production migration from legacy key credentials to Azure Managed Identity worldwide; proactively intercepted customer PII leaks in telemetry, leaked secrets in incident logs, and data exfiltration architectural flaws prior to release.

  • High-Scale Performance Tuning: Overhauled core risk-alerting engines to achieve 30% lower alert latency with custom dynamic throttling; redesigned distributed trigger pipelines for 40% higher peak throughput with native fault tolerance, driving a 70% drop in customer-reported issues.

  • Distributed Data Engineering: Owned large-scale Apache Spark and Kusto data pipelines underpinning core trigger generation and user policy-scope datasets; root-caused complex distributed Spark failures by correlating monitoring telemetry across Kusto and Azure Data Factory (ADF).

  • Technical Leadership & Execution: Served as Tech Lead for network-based detection capabilities and strategic enterprise customer features; translated ambiguous product requirements into comprehensive HLD/LLDs, structured decision logs, and modular delivery kits.

  • AI-Assisted Engineering Innovations: Developed internal production-grade AI tooling including an Azure OpenAI LLM incident triage copilot (keyless auth, RBAC), MCP servers for automated dashboard investigation, and discrepancy detection agents; leveraged AI code reviews to intercept 20+ severe injection and crash bugs pre-commit.

  • Technical Mentorship & Multiplier Impact: Functioned as Senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) across three detection surfaces maintaining zero Sev2 incidents attributable to owned logic; mentored engineers into independent system owners, hosted 30+ architectural design reviews, and boosted team velocity by 20% through developer tooling.

• Software Engineer, Microsoft Intune

  Jan, 2020 - Jun, 20222 years 5 months

  Owned core reporting infrastructure spanning 50+ microservices, enabling a 2x scale expansion in enterprise customer growth.

  • Microservices Redesign: Re-architected and deployed event-processing microservices for horizontal elasticity and scenario isolation, eliminating noisy-neighbor degradation and drastically reducing on-call alert fatigue.

  • Security Transformation: Discovered and remediated a long-standing secret exposure in core services with staged credential rotation; orchestrated ADAL to MSAL authentication migration and transitioned Kusto data access to secure token callbacks.

  • Platform Onboarding & Team Culture: Delivered account-move orchestration as the foundational PaaS service onboarding model; introduced pair programming practices, optimized on-call rotations, and mentored junior engineering talent.

• Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure Maps

  May, 2018 - Jan, 20201 year 8 months

  Designed and scaled high-performance geospatial cloud services for Azure enterprise customers on a nascent product line.

  • API Modernization & Streaming: Redesigned batch and matrix REST APIs using advanced HTTP streaming to handle massive response payloads smoothly through GA release; simplified core routing infrastructure and built automated integration-test gating pipelines.

• Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure Key Vault

  Oct, 2016 - May, 20181 year 7 months

  Engineered core security cloud services for cryptographic key, secret, and certificate management across global datacenters.

  • Managed Storage Account Keys (Preview to GA): Designed and shipped end-to-end REST APIs, secret management business logic, SDK extensions, national-cloud enablement, and soft-delete protection within a lean two-person team.

  • System Reliability & Resilience: Built automated customer-secret inventory tracking and redesigned multi-channel expiry notifications; contributed directly to company-wide mitigation and recovery efforts during major intermediate-certificate outages.

• Software Engineer, Microsoft Bing

  May, 2016 - Oct, 20165 months

  Owned large-scale crawler and web-search indexing data pipelines.

  • Optimized high-volume bot-search data crawl, filter, and index pipelines while expanding customer service chat and messaging integrations across bing.com.

• Software Engineer, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery

  Mar, 2014 - May, 20162 years 2 months

  Built enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity automation workloads for Azure cloud environments.

  • Disaster Recovery Implementation: Shipped robust SQL AlwaysOn disaster recovery support across on-premises infrastructure and Azure portal UI in a 4-engineer team; released v1 .NET and PowerShell SDKs in collaboration with overseas partner teams.

  • Monitoring Architecture: Architected production monitoring frameworks, health reporting tools, and paged REST APIs for high-capacity resource listings from scratch.

• Software Developer, Amazon

  Jan, 2012 - Mar, 20142 years 2 months

  Built high-performance core e-commerce platform services and distributed data layers.

  • Performance Optimization: Reduced core system latency by 60% by introducing an optimized data-access layer; integrated latitude/longitude geolocation into core address processing systems, improving final-mile delivery efficiency by 30%.

  • Legacy Migration: Migrated ~100 internal client systems from legacy C++ infrastructure to modern Java-based microservices backed by distributed datastores, elevating overall team engineering throughput by 20%.

  • Internationalization: Contributed to high-stakes regional country launches covering UTF-8 transcoding and cross-realm distributed data replication.

• Software Engineer, General Electric (Wind Energy software)

  Jul, 2011 - Jan, 20126 months

  Developed industrial automation and turbine management software.

  • Resolved critical project release blockers shortly after onboarding; built automated C# metadata tooling that accelerated delivery pipelines and ensured flawless production releases.

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