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Microsoft Gold Star Award
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Shalabh Mohan Shrivastava

Summary

Passionate about building and scaling large teams to develop world-class products. Successfully built and led products and Azure services from the ground up, taking them to cloud scale. Extensive experience in leading and developing products in the early stages (0 to 1). Worked closely with key Azure services such as Azure Cache, Azure Service Fabric, and Azure Arc for Kubernetes. Founding member and ongoing contributor to Microsoft's open-source cloud-native initiatives like Dapr and Radius. Dedicated to driving innovation in the industry. Strategic mindset and exceptional problem-solving skills. Excel in driving large-scale, cross-functional change programs and transformation initiatives within organizations.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
07.2024 - Current
  • Leading AI enhancements - including specifications and design for Azure Arc connected workloads. Building Copilot scenarios in Arc offerings that helps design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and services. Combining the power of cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with the Azure Resource Model, Copilot for Azure enables rich understanding and management of everything that's happening in Azure, from the cloud to the edge.
  • Improved the support tickets diagnosability. Reduced 20% tickets by self-help troubleshooting.
  • Providing technical leadership and engineering team execution.
  • Building AI capabilities in Microsoft Copilot in Azure.
  • Partnering across teams in Copilot platform to enable the AI skills.

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
09.2022 - 06.2024
  • Engineering Leader in Mark Russinovich's Azure Office of the CTO Incubations Team to incubate strategic and high potential projects and technology within the Azure ecosystem and across the industry
  • Founding engineer and maintainer of project Radius (https://radapp.io/) which is an open-source, cloud-native, application platform that enables developers and the operators that support them to define, deploy, and collaborate on cloud-native applications across public clouds and private infrastructure
  • Built Radius Core platform
  • Providing technical leadership, established engineering processes and managing my engineering team execution
  • Focusing on building cloud-native open-source application platform

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
09.2020 - 08.2022
  • Core founding member of Dapr.
  • Dapr leverages industry best practices for security, resiliency, and observability, so you can focus on your code
  • Dapr provides APIs for Building Secure and Reliable Microservices


  • Built Azure Arc Billing platform for Azure Arc for Kubernetes
  • Led partner teams engagements for Azure services for Billing scenarios on Arc for Kubernetes and onboarding them to Arc Billing platform

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
06.2017 - 09.2020

Azure Service Fabric

  • Co-owner of the Service Fabric Reliable collections which enable you to write highly available, scalable, and low-latency cloud applications as though you were writing single computer applications
  • Reliable Collections keep the state locally in the service instance while also being made highly available
  • Read more details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-reliable-services-reliable-collections
  • Owned and managed the replicated key value store that provides a transactional, replicated, associative data storage component to service writers - ready for integration into any Service Fabric service
  • Read more details here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.fabric.keyvaluestorereplica?view=azure-dotnet
  • Owned the live site operations of the fabric key value store


Dapr

  • Core founding member of Dapr, shipped v1 and remained maintainer till2021
  • Dapr provides APIs for Building Secure and Reliable Microservices
  • Dapr leverages industry best practices for security, resiliency, and observability, so you can focus on your code
  • Built Dapr Observability building block: https://docs.dapr.io/operations/observability/
  • Built Dapr Actors building block: https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/building-blocks/actors/
  • Built the .NET SDK: https://docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/sdks/dotnet/
  • Built the state management components and added multiple runtime features support

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
03.2013 - 06.2017

Microsoft Intune

  • Led and built a robust v1 conditional access service which is responsible for providing conditional corporate resources based on device compliance involving owning End to End Office365 Exchange, SharePoint Online scenarios, feature development and testing the feature on all supported platform and devices - iOS, Windows, Windows Phone and Android devices
  • Operationalized the service - added observability: metrics, diagnostics and built live site dashboards and responsible for managing the live site incidents
  • Led and enabled Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) conditional access scenarios working with cross functional and partner teams involving Azure Auth, Office365 and within Intune scenario teams
  • Led the team as owner of the MDM VPN, Wi-Fi, Certificates, Email resource access and conditional access scenarios and considered as go-to person in the team for Intune wide mobile device management scenarios
  • Company Resource Access profiles are used to configure the connection to a company network or configure some required components to a network connection: Certificate Profiles: Used for automatic certificate deployment Email Profiles: Automatically configured ActiveSync profiles on the Exchange Server for Intune service VPN Profiles: Automatic VPN profile configuration; transparent for the user Wi-Fi Profiles: Automatic Wi-Fi profile configuration; transparent for the user

Software Engineer II

Microsoft
02.2008 - 03.2013

Windows AppFabric Cache (On-Prem), Azure AppFabric Cache Service (Azure Cache, Cloud Service)

  • As a Founding member, contributed in delivering multiple features in a small team setting
  • Built the Developer experience to add the distributed cache in the application through the Visual Studio
  • Built the distributed cache feature by integrating with Service Fabric
  • Built the functional test framework to test the functionality of the cache
  • Built the test framework to test the high availability, concurrency of the cache to uncover most difficult bugs such as deadlocks, race conditions, and nodes failure occurrences
  • This framework proved to be highly successful in finding the most challenging bugs and help improved the reliability of the cache
  • Built the cluster installation, configuration and write-behind feature
  • Built and maintained the team stats site for the product that proved highly successful for the release of version V1
  • This site provided the high level and further depth level dashboard for ship radar
  • Team leadership (go-to person) by proactively communicating the weekly project status to stakeholders highlighting the risks including feature development, functionality and reliability status of the cache
  • Mentored the interns and new joiners in the team

Software Engineer

Microsoft
12.2006 - 02.2008

Microsoft Office Communicator Phone

  • Built and owned Image update feature which is a deployment requirement for the devices that can be fully managed by IT
  • This includes the ability to update the device with critical patches, OS updates and the latest application software on the phone
  • Added automated functional tests to validate multiple key features - Authentication, calls
  • As part of v1 team, contributed in several cross-cutting features and development efforts for a v1 product to ship successfully

Software Engineer

CA Technologies
04.2004 - 11.2006
  • Built and owned the integration layer of Audit administrator with eTrust Embedded Identity and Access Management(eIAM)
  • Embedded IAM component is a set of tools and services to be used as a common access policy management, authentication, and authorization service
  • Integrated security knowledge and investigative tools to enable quick, business-oriented impact analysis and to initiate and track corrective actions in eTrust Security and Information Management (SIM) product.CA SIM Sigma analyzes and reports on security events from across the enterprise, intelligently identifying and prioritizing security issues according to the business drivers

Member, Technical

FirstApex
06.2003 - 03.2004
  • Built the new underwriting and claim management features in the next generation of insurance software
  • Debugged and fixed many critical issues across the product
  • Key responsible for managing critical India customers - Royal Sundaram, HDFC Chubb

Education

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
05-2026

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

National Institute of Technology
Trichy, India
05-2003

Skills

  • Cloud-Native Architecture
  • Go, Kubernetes
  • Distributed Systems
  • Generative AI/LLM

Certification

  • Building Generative AI Applications with Gradio
  • Foundation ISTQB
  • Machine Learning by Stanford University (Grade Achieved:100%)
  • Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
  • Generative AI with Large Language Models

Microsoft Gold Star Award

This award is given to recognize exceptional impact in Microsoft.

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
07.2024 - Current

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
09.2022 - 06.2024

Principal Software Engineer

Microsoft
09.2020 - 08.2022

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
06.2017 - 09.2020

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
03.2013 - 06.2017

Software Engineer II

Microsoft
02.2008 - 03.2013

Software Engineer

Microsoft
12.2006 - 02.2008

Software Engineer

CA Technologies
04.2004 - 11.2006

Member, Technical

FirstApex
06.2003 - 03.2004

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science

National Institute of Technology
Shalabh Mohan Shrivastava