Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Leadership And Community
Certifications And Awards
Timeline
SoftwareEngineer

Rakshaa Viswanathan

Software Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

Seasoned Software Engineer experienced developing applications, databases and cloud computing solutions. Smart professional with proven troubleshooting and debugging capabilities for resolving complex technical issues.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
7
7
Languages

Work History

Software Engineer

Microsoft
Bengaluru
06.2022 - Current

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.

Software Engineering Intern

Microsoft
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 07.2021
  • 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.

Education

B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Science

NIT Trichy
Tiruchirappalli, India
01-2022

Skills

C, Java, Python, C#, Golang, JavaScript, NET, Dart

Linux (kernel, sysadmin), Azure, distributed systems, microservices, Kafka, event-driven architecture

REST, GraphQL, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, SQL, Kusto (KQL), FIrebase

Concepts: System design, data structures & algorithms, concurrency, OOP, CAP theorem, consensus protocols

Other: Machine learning, deep learning, IoT, technical writing (IEEE)

Certification

Deep Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI

Leadership And Community

  • Founded Superposition Chennai - a 300+ member developer community with structured mentorship, coding workshops, and peer learning programmes.
  • Directed Kurinji Hacks, Chennai's largest hackathon for gender minorities: 500+ participants, 95% project completion rate.
  • Mentored and judged at 50+ global hackathons (MLH, Girls in Tech), supporting 1,500+ student developers from underrepresented groups.

Certifications And Awards

  • Algorithmic Toolbox - UC San Diego
  • Deep Learning Specialization - DeepLearning.AI
  • Machine Learning - Stanford Online
  • Azure SPT Spot Award (platform reliability)
  • YuHacks Bonus Prize (Cloud)
  • Wolfram Award (algorithm innovation)
  • Quantahacks echoAR Winner (Top 1%)

Timeline

Azure SPT Spot Award (Platform reliability)

11-2024

Software Engineer

Microsoft
06.2022 - Current
yuHacks Bonus Prize (Cloud)
03-2022

Wolfram Award (Algorithm innovation)

01-2022
Deep Learning Specialization — DeepLearning.AI
07-2021
Machine Learning — Stanford Online
07-2021

Software Engineering Intern

Microsoft
06.2021 - 07.2021

B.Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Computer Science

NIT Trichy
Rakshaa ViswanathanSoftware Engineer