SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of Software Development Engineer experiences with Full Stack/Multi - Tier Dev skills. Over 8 years of development experiences with Azure Technologies.
• Over 15 years of C# .Net experience in teh Design, Development and Testing of High Traffic RestFul Web API Services, Azure Cloud Computing Services, Micro Services, Azure Service Bus, NServiceBus Services and Windows Services, Sites and Software.
• 11 years worked with Confidential, Redmond, USA as a Full Time/Permanent Employee with Individual contributor dev and Lead dev experiences. Over 15 years worked with Microsoft Confidential including contract positions.
• 2 years worked with Starbucks Corporation, Seattle, USA as Software Development Engineer.
• Architected, Designed, Developed Online Services and Software for MS Office Redemption Web Services, Officesetup.getmicrosoftkey.com, XBOX Game Services, Cognitive Content Protection AI Services, MSN.com, Starbucks Web API services, Hotel Management, and End to End solutions for Business services, applications and sites.
• Uses “Design patterns and practices” and “Test Driven Development” extensively in design and development.
• Has always possessed a strong passion for Quality and Engineering Excellence in following processes to automate Unit, Integration and Acceptance tests with high code coverage, using Code Review tools, Code Analysis tools etc.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills providing innovative solutions to complex practical problems.
• Working in Lean, Agile development with scrum models, Kanban, milestone and DevOps based Software development cycles for releases.
• Always displayed strong Cross group collaboration experiences and communication working closely with Bing, Microsoft.com, MSN Channel partners and released varied, high profile, high visibility projects successfully.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

.Net C# and teh CLR by .Net Guru Jeffrey Richer

Building Applications with ASP.Net MVC and Entity Framework

Azure Cloud Computing and Storage Services by Jeffrey Richer

Asynchronous programming - Microsoft .NET Threading in C#: Building Responsive, Reliable, and Scalable Code by Jeffrey Richer

Web Services with WCF

Developing with Design Patterns I and II

Refactoring, Unit Testing, and Test-Driven Development

SQL Server 2005/2008: Advanced Transact-SQL

.Net and Online Security

Advanced C++

Expert Dev by Eric Brechner

Lead Dev by Eric BrechnerMS SQL SERVER 7.0 Database Administrators Technical conducted by Microsoft Confidential India Private Limited, Chennai, India.ORACLE 7.1 at Software Solutions Integrated Ltd., Chennai, India.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) for Visual Basic 5.0 - Score 932 / 1000. Unix & C at PSG Colege of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Angular web development, Kubernetes: Pluralsight

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Development Engineer

Confidential, Redmond, WA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Technologies worked with: C# .Net 4.7, RestFul Web API Services, Micro Services, ASP.Net MVC 5, Azure Storage Tables, Blobs, Azure Key Vault, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Asynchronous programming, Azure Active Directory, OAuth 2.0, Design Patterns, ADO.Net, SQL Stored Procedures, PowerShell scripts, Azure ARM templates, Angular, Knockout, HTML, CSS, VSTS, VS 2019, VS Database and Test projects. Kusto Query Language, Azure App Insights Analytics. Azure Kubernetes Services, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm for containerized applications. Azure Monitor systems.
• Areas worked: Owned and worked end to end extensively on designing, creating ASP.Net web API Services, Business work flow pipeline components, Data access components, Web page features, written Powershell and Kusto Query language scripts, automation of Azure deployments and monitoring alerts with ARM templates using linked templates.
• System: Cognitive content protection API and Backend worker services powering teh content moderation Video, Image and Text review to identify prohibited content to promote online content safety from various external and internal partners like Bing, Xbox, Skype etc. using AI based automated sync, async scanning and human review with publicly available and internal Sentry review web sites.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Confidential, Redmond, WA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Technologies worked with: C# .Net 4.5, RestFul Web API Services, Micro Services, ASP.Net MVC 5, Azure Storage Tables, Blobs, Azure Key Vault, SQL Server, Asynchronous programming, Azure Active Directory, OAuth 2.0, Design Patterns, ADO.Net, SQL Stored Procedures, PowerShell scripts, Azure ARM templates, VSTS, VS 2017, VS Database and Test projects. Multiplayer Selection Directory, XBOX Live Auth services. Kusto Query Language, Azure App Insights Analytics. Kubernetes for containerized applications. Azure Monitor, Prometheus and Grafana monitoring systems.
• Areas worked: Owned and worked end to end extensively on designing, creating ASP.Net web API Services, Business work flow pipeline components, Data access components, written Powershell and Kusto Query language scripts, automation of Azure deployments and monitoring alerts with ARM templates using linked templates hosted and called from MSGP deploy service with specific game service data.
• System: XBOX game services called by XBOX and Steam game clients like “Crackdown”, “Rise of Nations”, “Killer Instinct”, “Zoo” etc., CrossPlay, Privacy, Messaging, MSGP deploy services.

Senior Software Development Engineer

Confidential, Seattle, WA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Technologies worked with: C# .Net 4.5, RestFul Web API Services, Micro Services, ASP.Net MVC 5, NServiceBus 5.0, SQL Server, Asynchronous programming, OAuth 2.0, Design Patterns, ADO.Net, SQL Stored Procedures, VS 2015, VS Database and Test projects.
• Areas worked: Owned and worked end to end extensively on designing, creating Web API Services, Micro Services and NServiceBus Services, Business work flow pipeline components, integrate with external and internal Partner Web Services, Data access components, written SQL stored procedures.
• System: Starbucks Card Transactions, Transaction History, Order history, Apple Passbook, Location, User Account, High Traffic RestFul Web API Services called by teh popular Starbucks Mobile App, POS, https:Starbucks.com web site and Apple Passbook App. Near Real Time or offline processing for teh submitted requests using NServiceBus hosted services for commands and publisher-subscribers events which stores to SQL database.

Confidential, Redmond, WA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Technologies worked with: C# .Net 4.5, ASP.Net MVC 5, Windows Azure Cloud Computing Web API, Worker role services and Storage Services Azure Storage Services like Tables and Blobs, Disconnected apps using Azure Message Queues and Service Bus (MSMQ), SQL Azure, Asynchronous programming, Azure Access Control Service (ACS), Design Patterns, ADO.Net, SQL Stored Procedures, JQuery, HTML, CSS, VS 2013, VS Database and Test projects.
• Areas worked: Worked on creating Azure based Web API services and Worker roles, Business work flow pipeline components, integrate with external and internal Partner Web services, Data access components, written SQL stored procedures.
• System: Teh Microsoft Digital Supply Chain group provides MS Office Redemption Web Services hosted at Azure as and web site to redeem teh purchase tokens purchased by customers and to create subscription to use MS Office products. Teh redemption services are also used by mobile apps for MS Store, Google Play, Apple Store, and Samsung to redeem and create Office subscriptions.

Confidential, Redmond, WA, USA

Responsibilities:

• Technologies worked with: C# .Net 4.0, ASP.Net MVC 3, ADO.Net, VS 2010, VS Database and Test projects, SQL DB Design, SQL Stored Procedure and Windows Azure Cloud Computing, MSMQ, JQuery. Microsoft internal technologies like Cosmos, Scope Scripts, and Autopilot.
• Demand Dashboard is teh backend engine for powering Biggest Movers, Trending Now, and Spiking Topics in MSN site and Editorial Tool. Teh system gets feed signals from multiple Social and other sources like Facebook (differentiator signal compared to competitors), Twitter, Bing News etc.
• Stock Twits Service - Designed, implemented, unit, integration and acceptance tested end to end solution with Business objects, SQL Stored procedures, ASP.Net MVC, JQuery updates to show teh results in web page along with automated unit tests for teh service which provides Stock Twits from Twitter feeds, extract Stock symbols and create files every 15min with teh histogram details.
• Bing Cosmos verification watchdog service - Designed, Developed, unit, integration and Acceptance tested “Cosmos verification watchdog service” to monitor Cosmos data mining job status and send alerts. Provided monitoring watchdog design for multiple other watchdog services for UI Website, API web service, “MSN Now publishing service” and ETL Workflow service availability and data quality checks.
• Other Features and Components - Owned design, development and wrote automated Unit tests, Integration tests and Acceptance tests of features and components like “Multi-Word Topic Clustering” to display topic head of teh cluster, Business Objects, “Dash Cache Manager” component uses LRU cache implementation. Asynchronous programming was used to schedule maintenance of cache by cleanup as per teh configurable number of cache items.
• Windows Phone App using Azure Cloud Computing - Designed, Implemented, unit, integration, acceptance tested and demoed to teh Bing and MSN audience, teh Demand Dashboard “Azure web service” and “Content Uploader service” for teh Windows Phone App for Demand Dashboard application. dis is done for “Bing Hack Day 2011” Competition. We got teh 1st prize with Data, Tools and Services team competition. dis was specially chosen to be demoed personally to teh MSN Vice President among teh Top 5 demoes from MSN.