Work Experience
Software Engineer, Microsoft Discovery
July 2024 - Present
- Working on development of the Microsoft Discovery platform designed to accelerate scientific research by integrating AI tools to enhance discovery processes for researchers.
- Developing a knowledge base service of the platform which is responsible for building a graph index on the customer data to ground the language model.
- Working on the development and deployment of a scalable Azure service from ground zero. Gained hands-on experience in cloud-based architectures, containerization, and AI agents development for real-world applications.
Software Engineer, Azure Operator Insights, Microsoft
July 2022 - June 2024
- Developed and maintained the online services component of Azure Operator Insights, a unified analytics platform for telecom operators, using an internal Azure service framework.
- Contributed in the service lifecycle from private preview to general availability, ensuring production readiness, scalability, and integration with Azure's ecosystem.
Software Engineer Intern, Microsoft India
May 2021 - July 2021
- Designed and implemented a documentation generator that parses the comments from the code base and generates a dynamic documentation page using Python and Jinja2 templating engine.
Education
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
2018 - 2022
CGPA: 8.00
Projects
No Server - A cloud computing paradigm
September 2022
A computing paradigm that can offload compute tasks to client-side
- No Server is an alternate computing paradigm that lets web developers offload light server workloads to the client side using containers. Thus, saving on the server costs and maintaining customer data privacy.
- Built a prototype that lets users extract the audio from a video file without the file leaving their systems, with all the compute happening on the client machine.
Technical Skills
Languages
C#, Python, JavaScript
Technologies
Docker, Git, Cloud Services, REST APIs
Other
Azure, Applied AI Engineering, GenAI Application Development
Achievements
- ETHIndia 2022 — Second Runner Up, Mina Protocol Prize Pool
- Microsoft Engage 2020 — Winner among 600+ selected students across the country
- Creative Shock — 27th among 1800+ participants from 101 countries
- Strategy Storm — 2nd among 1250+ participants from 6+ countries
Positions of Responsibility
Institute Secretary, Consulting & Analytics Club, IIT Guwahati
July 2020 - April 2021
- Led a team of 8 pre-final year and 100+ sophomores interested in Data Science & Management Consulting.
- Conducted the first edition of National Level Data Science hackathon, Cascade Cup - The Ultimate Data Science Challenge in collaboration with Trell.
- Responsible for conducting various workshops, courses and hackathons at national & international level.
Personal Interests
- Running for fitness but mostly fun
- Self-hosting FOSS and maintaining a personal homelab for experimentation and learning
- Birdwatching and documenting observations on eBird