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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Mentored many senior & staff engineers and managers. 
- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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OfferUp

Staff Software Engineer - Business

Led a full-stack team of 8 engineers that's responsible for the ingestion, storage, retrieval, and life cycle management of all items and images on OfferUp.

Senior Software Development Engineer - Catalog/Motors

Software Development Engineer II - Catalog

Part of the Secure Token Service (STS) team, enabling secure and robust authentication solutions in Azure Active Directory.

Software Engineer, Azure Active Directory

Veritas Technologies LLC

Eliminated the need for any storage devices needed for debugging Veritas File System (VxFS) issues by re-implementing VxFS userspace utilities which enabled them to work on a file instead of a block device. This allowed the engineers to start debugging without blocking on the storage resources. It will be a part of future VxFS releases.

Software Engineer Intern

Cisco Systems

Wireless Network Business Unit Polaris Team
• Instrumental in the implementation of High Availability feature to sync operational data to stand-by WLC (Wireless LAN controller) using elcaro database (a transactional in-memory database) with replication and support for dependency ordering.
• Solved scalability issues persistent with the previous version of the software by externalizing the AP (Access Points) sessions data to a shared database outside the process, which was later tested on set-ups with more than 500 Access Points(simulated) and Mobility peers.
• Efficiently used TDL (The Definition Language) schema that blends the requirements of messaging and databases. 
Technologies: C, Gdb, ACME;  Hardware: Cat5760(Controller), Cat3850.

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