Rakshaa Viswanathan

Azure Sovereign Platform

• Architected the Azure Dependency Service Graph using Graph-QL, Cosmos DB, and Kusto, enabling real-time dependency analysis across 10,000+ Azure services, and reducing incident resolution time by 30%.
• Owned all engineering for Cloud-Sprout API upgrades (schema versioning, caching, query optimization), increasing platform adoption by 40%, and cutting developer onboarding time by 25%.
• Designed an event-driven configuration pipeline using Apache Kafka and Az-PubSub; reduced propagation latency by 70% across sovereign regions, and scaled to millions of events daily.
• Built the Cloud-Sprout AI Assistant to automate onboarding query handling across 10,000+ configurations, deflecting repetitive support load, and accelerating new-service integration by an estimated 20%.

Azure Linux.

• Maintained and shipped security, performance, and reliability improvements for Azure Linux running on over 100,000 servers powering Azure cloud and edge infrastructure.
• Designed and owned automated validation and release pipelines (Linux, Python, React, JavaScript); reduced regressions by 35%, and accelerated deployment velocity by 20%.
• Drove cross-team design reviews for kernel and package updates, owning test coverage strategy, and rollout sequencing across multiple release tracks.

• Designed a distributed compilation system for CBL-Mariner by parallelising build pipelines — reduced end-to-end build times by 33%.
• Improved build farm orchestration using Go and Linux virtualisation, boosting throughput and increasing CI/CD workflow resilience.