Akhil Thomas
SDE II at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Akhil Thomas is an SDE II at Microsoft with nine years of experience building cloud-native and performance-oriented software from Hyderabad, India. He brings practical Azure expertise as a cloud consultant and has contributed to Microsoft's high-profile azure-quickstart-templates repository, migrating and reorganizing templates to modern folder structures. Earlier internships include work on CUDA-accelerated machine learning libraries at KLA and a 5G-NR dissector for Wireshark, reflecting a foundation in both systems-level and ML infrastructure. Comfortable across DevOps, cloud automation, and low-level networking, he excels at translating complex operational needs into maintainable code and templates. Known for challenging himself daily, he combines an IIT Hyderabad computer science background with hands-on open-source impact on widely used Azure tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 1253 commits, 1584 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Akhil primarily focused on migrating existing quickstart templates to new quickstart folder structure and implementing code move operations for several templates. These changes involved updating file paths to reflect the new organizational structure. The user was also involved in file name modification in the template files.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
akhilthomas011/azure-quickstart-templates
Apr 2021 - May 2024
Azure Quickstart Templates
Contributions:979 pushes, 1727 branches in 3 years 1 month
arm-templatestemplatesazure
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