Big Data · Distributed Systems · Azure

Hi, I’m Vedant.

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, a BITS Pilani Computer Science graduate, and an engineer focused on backend systems, big data platforms, Spark, ETL, and Azure.

About

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft.

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, working with Microsoft Viva Insights. I graduated from BITS Pilani with a B.E. in Computer Science in 2020. My expertise is in big data, Spark, distributed systems, ETL, Azure, and backend data platforms for product-scale analytics.

Top skills Big Data, Spark, Distributed Systems, ETL, Azure
Education BITS Pilani · B.E. Computer Science · 2020

Experience

Career timeline

Aug 2026 - Present · Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Viva Insights

Working on backend and data-platform systems for Microsoft Viva Insights, focused on reliable platform capabilities for product-scale analytics and data scenarios.

Backend PlatformsDistributed SystemsAzureC#
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026 · Bangalore

Software Engineer II, Data Platform Team

Worked in the Data Platform team, building backend platform capabilities including a Metadata Service that stores metadata for data across the platform. Orchestrated and built extraction data systems that extract HR data to power People Analytics Query from Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft tenants.

Metadata ServiceData PlatformHR DataMicrosoft CopilotBackend
Jan 2023 - Jun 2025 · Bangalore

Software Engineer II, Microsoft Viva Insights

Built a platform for Viva Insights to bring scenario data into the product platform. Integrated data scenarios including Glint surveys and Viva Skills, enabling extensible backend data ingestion and computation flows for Viva experiences.

Viva InsightsGlint SurveysViva SkillsSparkAzure
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022 · Bangalore

Software Engineer, Microsoft Teams

Worked on Microsoft Teams analytics data systems. Redesigned the Teams Data Analytics Spark pipeline with delta processing, reducing daily processing time from about 14 hours to about 5 hours and saving roughly 50% processing cost.

ETLDatabricksScalaSQLAzure Data Factory
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · Bangalore

Software Engineer Intern, Groww

Worked with the Android team on app development, owning features across stocks order flow, mutual funds redeem flow, and the profile tab that shipped to production.

KotlinAndroid StudioMobile UI
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020 · Bangalore

Software Engineer Intern, Microsoft

Built a chatbot-based Teams app showcasing employee workflows and common actions inside Microsoft Teams.

C#Azure Bot ServiceTeams App Studio

Skills

Technology focus

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