PARTNER ARCHITECT at DEEP NETWORK GmbH

Munich, Germany ? January 2018 to Current

Providing software architecture consultancy for various projects, mainly for cloud based distributed systems. Highlights include:

• Project Leader for multiple projects, working closely with POs and team leaders.
• Microservices based solutions using Service Fabric on Azure, or Kubernetes.
• DevOps infrastructure mainly using but not limited to CNCF product portfolio including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, FluentD, Jaeger, and others.
• CI/CD and Release management both with Azure Native Solutions (Azure DevOps, ARM Templates) as well as open source cloud provider agnostic solutions (Jenkins, TerraForm)
• Data Analytics using Data Lake and U-SQL. Built ADF pipelines for SQL DB based analytics.
• Prototype mobile applications via native iOS or Android libraries.
• Designed full stack solutions include data storage, services, APis, and UI.

Founder and director at [Company on request]

London, UK ? June 2016 to January 2018

Providing software consultancy to various technology driven companies for all aspects of software development, including areas such as big data, web 2.0, and mobile software development.

Senior Software Engineer LEAD at Microsoft - Bing AUTOSUGGEST

London, UK - November 2012 to March 2016

• Lead the universal searchbox frontend development team of 6 developers. Responsibilities included planning & project management, architecture design and coding.
• Designed and led the efforts for bing.com, Windows 10 Searchbox instrumentation for user behavior analysis.
• Ran A/B experiments, analyzed traffic logs, user behavior both for issue investigation and planning.
• Designed and implemented the bing.com searchbox suggestions service using ASP.NET/MVC, Spark and C#.
• Designed the data schema for communication between frontend and backend services.
• Designed and built the solution for Windows 10 searchbox integration for bing.com suggestions using ASP.NET/MVC, Spark, C# and ReactJS.

Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft - Bing Local

Bellevue, WA, USA - December 2011 to October 2012

• Implemented various data ingestion and normalization solutions using U-SQL and integrated with in-house workflow platforms.
• Designed and implemented algorithms using MSR Machine Learning Toolkit to improve stability of the conflation process.

SofTWare Engineer 2 at Microsoft - Bing Shopping

Bellevue, WA, USA - June 2009 - November 2011

• Designed and implemented Bing Shopping APIs and integrated with other search APIs within Microsoft Bing using C++/STL
• Designed various data schemas for integrating to Bing Shopping UX Frontend and other internal clients.
• Analyzed traffic logs via map/reduce for performance analysis.
• Built live site health monitoring solutions for Bing Shopping APIs.

Software Engineer at Microsoft - Office InfoPath

Redmond, WA, USA - February 2007 - June 2009

• Designed and implemented features for InfoPath WinForms application using C++, and Internet Explorer Canvas/Trident for HTML.
• Worked on the SharePoint integration for InfoPath and Business Connectivity services.
• Redesigned InfoPath?s file format to support portability of InfoPath solutions within SharePoint.

Software Engineer in Test AT Microsoft ? SQL Server

Redmond, WA, USA - October 2005 to January 2007

• Built quality monitoring solutions and various test suites for MSXML and XmlLite.