Abhishek Kapila
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishek Kapila is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, currently driving intelligence features at Microsoft’s MSAI team. He has a strong background in payments and high-throughput microservices from work at Cellulant, plus hands-on experience delivering mobile and web platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and analytics across multiple African markets. Skilled in computer networking, data analysis, databases and data science, he blends backend engineering with practical product-focused instrumentation to improve system throughput and revenue. His career shows a progression from contract and plugin development to architecting production services at a major cloud company, reflecting both breadth and operational rigor. Based in Nairobi, he brings a pragmatic approach to integrating new customers and migrating systems at scale, often surfacing non-obvious performance gains through data-driven analysis.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at United States International University - Africa
English, French
Github Skills (10)
react-native-module9
native-module9
image-picker9
camera9
react-native7
react7
ios6
dns6
python6
android4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akapila011/DNS-Server
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
A simple implementation of a DNS server in Python.
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
dns-serverpythondns
akapila011/Text-to-Image
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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