Summary
Ajinkya Babar is a Software Engineer II with a decade of experience building backend and full-stack systems, currently at Microsoft after impactful roles at CNH and Red Hat. He focuses on modernizing legacy systems and designing cloud-native, microservices architectures that measurably improve performance—at CNH he boosted backend efficiency by 20%. His open-source work at Red Hat included an Operator Curator for OpenShift that improved resource visibility across Kubernetes clusters, reflecting a knack for practical tooling that helps operators at scale. Comfortable across Java, Node.js, React, GraphQL and AWS, he blends distributed-systems design with hands-on implementation and a growing interest in applying AI and LLMs to developer workflows. Based in Redmond, he holds an MS in Information Systems from Northeastern and regularly contributes to the developer community outside of work.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Systems at Northeastern University
BE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Marathi, Hindi