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AJINKYA KHER

SAMMAMISH,WA

Summary

Software engineering leader with 13+ years of experience in large-scale cloud services and messaging platforms. Scaled Microsoft Teams to support 300M+ monthly active users, driving major improvements in resiliency, availability, and cost efficiency. Lead Meta’s youth safety and supervision charter, managing a team of 12+ engineers to deliver features that earn parental trust and meet regulatory standards. Proven track record in mentoring and promoting engineers across all career stages, while championing engineering excellence and organizational success.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineering Manager

Meta
06.2025 - Current
  • Lead 12+ eng team advancing Meta's youth safety, delivering trusted, compliant features.
  • Spearheaded ODNC integration in MSGR, enhancing teen safety across a 1B+ user platform.
  • Lead org-wide Dogfood & Ops reviews, aligning teams on quality, reliability & ops excellence.

PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING MANAGER

Microsoft
08.2016 - 06.2025
  • Built and scaled enterprise-grade services, powering 1B+ daily messages and 300M+ MAU.
  • Improved Tier-0 scenario availability from 99.9% to 99.99% and reduced e2e latency by 50%.
  • Optimized DB writes, saving $10M+ annually & executed cross-geo migration of 10B+ threads.
  • Delivered S4B Web SDK plugins for Outlook & Salesforce, enabling seamless integrations.
  • Drove the growth of a 10-person team, promoting 5 engineers, alongside my own rapid progression from SDE2 to Principal EM.

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT

Slalom Consulting
11.2014 - 08.2016
  • Built the Payment & Checkout experience portal for The Home Depot.
  • Developed the DMeX portal, connecting advertisers and producers with Coca-Cola Marketing.
  • Optimized complex workflows and fixed customer pain points for McKesson and Delta Airlines.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Eze Software Group
08.2012 - 11.2014
  • Received Director recognition for prototyping interop between different Eze products.
  • Led research & built a workflow simulator to identify optimal WAN technology for Eze suite.

Education

MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE - GPA: 3.83 -

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
06.2012

BACHELORS IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING - GPA: 3.9 -

University of Pune
Pune, India
06.2010

Timeline

Software Engineering Manager

Meta
06.2025 - Current

PRINCIPAL ENGINEERING MANAGER

Microsoft
08.2016 - 06.2025

TECHNICAL CONSULTANT

Slalom Consulting
11.2014 - 08.2016

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Eze Software Group
08.2012 - 11.2014

MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE - GPA: 3.83 -

North Carolina State University

BACHELORS IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING - GPA: 3.9 -

University of Pune

Tools & Technologies

Azure Cloud, Cosmos DB, Redis, C#, .NET, TypeScript, Angular, React, SignalR, Hack, Figma

Awards & Publications

  • TypeScript High Performance: Authored a book on TypeScript, published by Packt.
  • GIVE Champion: VP-appointed Lead for driving GIVING across the org at Microsoft for 3 years.
  • Sears Retail Hackathon Winner: Developed a 'social' shopping app on Apigee.
  • IEEE International Publication: Published research on network algorithms while interning at TCS.
  • Mobile Game App: Developed 'Beer or Kitten' on Apple, Google and Windows Stores.
  • Led initiatives in PNW nonprofits (SMM, BOW), managing events, vendors, social, AV.

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