Ajinkya Kher
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAjinkya Kher is a Principal Engineering Manager based in the Greater Seattle Area with nine years of experience building large-scale, resilient cloud messaging infrastructure for Microsoft Teams that handles billions of messages daily. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise in .NET backends and modern front-end frameworks (Angular, React) with a passion for architecture, process design, and cost-efficient systems at scale. Ajinkya has led teams from prototype to 270M+ MAU product features while driving reliability and performance improvements across middle-tier services. He contributes to front-end developer experiences—evidenced by UI and sample improvements to Microsoft’s Skype Web SDK—and enjoys mentoring, technical leadership, and community engagement such as running Microsoft’s annual Giving Campaign. Early research work produced a published algorithmic improvement in wireless sensor networks, reflecting a long-standing strength in algorithmic thinking and system-level optimization. He’s curious by nature, frequently explores new technologies, and brings a pragmatic balance of engineering depth and people-focused leadership.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English, Marathi, Hindi, German, Tamil, Gujarati
Github Skills (6)
html10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
css9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
OfficeDev/skype-docs
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
This repository contains the content of the Skype Web SDK documentation. To review your PR, contact lindalu@microsoft.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 16 PRs, 77 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ajinkya primarily contributed to the development of the Skype Web SDK documentation samples. Their work focused on implementing and restructuring various UI elements and interactive sample sections. The user refactored the folder structure to incorporate documentation into deployment and integrated a new UI framework (mui-css) for a sleeker user interface. They also addressed image path issues, and modified authentication and conversation control elements, resulting in a more polished and user-friendly experience.
web-sdkskypesdkreviewsdk-documentation
AjinkyaKher/Podcast_React_Redux_Angular2_RxJs
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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