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Abhishek Kushwaha

Engineering Manager
Noida

Summary

Dynamic Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with expertise in scalable system design and performance tuning. Spearheaded the SQL Tools team, achieving over 300K MAU and enhancing reliability. Committed to mentorship and fostering team diversity, while integrating cutting-edge technologies like GithubCopilot. Proven track record in driving impactful engineering initiatives.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft
03.2022 - Current
  • Driving the charter Sql Tools team in India with 10 engineers for building the sql developer ecosystem. It includes Visual Studio Extension(Sql server Data tools) , SSAS, SSRS for VS2019 , VS2022 and tools collectively has over 300K MAU. Focus on reliability,performance , CSAT measuring NPS, GithubCopilot Integration.
  • Lead the team for building experiences on Azure portal for Azure SqlDB provisioning(Azure resource manager via Control Plane).
  • Lead the charter for SQL DB in Fabric for Performance Dashboard from inception till preview for monitoring CPU consumption, memory,blocking queries,auto indexing. Led the design reviews with focus on reliability, performance.

Senior Engineering Manager

Naukri.com
05.2019 - 03.2022
  • Spearheaded tech roadmap and DR strategy for RMS(Recruitment Management System), enabling replication of core services (Elasticsearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB) from on-prem to GCP in collaboration with SREs and Google Cloud engineers. Managed a team of 7–8 engineers through the transition.
  • Scaled RMS to 2.5K+ enterprise clients as part of a new business vertical within Naukri.
  • Owned hiring, mentorship, performance reviews, and career development planning aligned with organizational goals.

Engineering Manager

Naukri.com
01.2019 - 03.2020
  • Led the development of the Offer Management module from scratch with a team of 6 engineers, driving the entire lifecycle from ideation to delivery. Transformed a manual offer process (previously handled via Excel, Word, and email) into a fully integrated, automated workflow within RMS.
  • Achieved rapid adoption post-launch: 200+ offers created within the first month; offer creation and approval time reduced from 4 hours to 1 hour.
  • Improved operational efficiency and customer satisfaction: 75% of issues resolved before SLA breach and 25% reduction in recurring client issues.

SDE 2

Amazon.com
11.2017 - 12.2018
  • Part of Alexa Data Services Team created web-workflows for human data labeling which is used AI/ML team for model enrichment/validations.(Improved data-labeling efficiency by 25%) Complete ownership of a web-workflow where Alexa and Google response are stored and evaluated for a same query.
  • Joined Middle Mile Transportation Payments Team, involved with the overall architecture improvement of all transportation events which qualify for payments, with proper cost and validations, invoice generations and settlement.
  • Technology: Java Spring (Amazon internal framework), AWS SQS, AWS DynamoDB, AWS S3, AWS Cloud front, AWS RedShift, ETL.

Technology Lead

Naukri.com
06.2012 - 11.2017
  • Worked on job alert search algorithm based on Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) with data-science team. Aim of the algorithm is to provide relevant jobs recommendation to the job-seeker based on their profile.
  • Worked end to end of this product I.e user profile creation, searching, mailers and make it scalable as number of users are above 10 million.
  • Build a exhaustive MIS which tracks number of Job Alerts mail sent through different email client (like gmail, yahoo, rediffmail etc), count of job description pageviews and apply on the jobs.
  • Technology: Php, Python, Mysql, Apache, RabbitMQ, Docker, Jerser-API Framework, Wordpress, Redis, Memcache, Phalcon, elasticsearch, kibana.

Associate Technology

Sapient Corporation
07.2010 - 05.2012
  • Aim of this project is, as there is merger going on between EGL (power-trading company) and AXPO (Power generating company) so we have to model and migrate all trading data from iOPT (AXPO's trading system) to Endur(EGL trading system).
  • As Endur is developed on C/C++, we are using AVS Scripting (C language) for modeling and migration.

Education

BTech - Information Technology

Indian Institute of Information Technology,Allahab
Allahabad
04.2001 -

Skills

    Distributed Systems

    Performance tuning, reliability engineering

    GithubCopilot Integration , LLM Integrations

    NET , Java , Azure , AWS

    CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc

    Mentorship and career development for engineers

    Promoting team health, diversity and inclusion

    Representing engineering in cross-org or company-wide initiative

Timeline

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Microsoft
03.2022 - Current

Senior Engineering Manager

Naukri.com
05.2019 - 03.2022

Engineering Manager

Naukri.com
01.2019 - 03.2020

SDE 2

Amazon.com
11.2017 - 12.2018

Technology Lead

Naukri.com
06.2012 - 11.2017

Associate Technology

Sapient Corporation
07.2010 - 05.2012

BTech - Information Technology

Indian Institute of Information Technology,Allahab
04.2001 -

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