Ajay Arora
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Cisco Systems
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjay Arora is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with over a decade of experience leading engineering teams at Microsoft and prior development work at Cisco Systems, based in Washington, D.C. He blends hands-on DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks repo focused on robust Visual Studio Test Agent deployment—with strategic leadership in large-scale engineering organizations. Known for improving deployment reliability and troubleshooting subtle automation issues, he balances shipping production-ready tooling with coaching teams to operational excellence. A BTech in IT from IIIT Allahabad, he brings a strong systems background and a practical mindset for integrating testing and CI/CD into complex enterprise workflows. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces and fixes edge-case behaviors that keep infrastructure reliable at scale.
11 years of coding experience
BTech, IT, BTech, IT at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad
Github Skills (7)
windows10
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
configuration-management10
cicd10
testing9
test-automation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:51 commits, 30 PRs, 34 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ajay's commits primarily focus on the deployment and configuration of the Visual Studio Test Agent within Azure Pipelines. They've made several changes to the `TestAgentConfiguration.ps1` script, introducing and refining functionalities such as power options configuration, handling active sessions, and integration with `DTAExecHost.exe`. The work also included bug fixes, adjustments to sleep intervals, and incorporating CR comments, all geared toward improving the deployment process and ensuring the test agent functions correctly within the Azure Pipelines environment.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
ajay-arora/ADFTest
Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
For testing ADF
Contributions:2 PRs, 267 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
adftestingjava
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