Anuj Parashar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAnuj Parashar is a Principal Software Engineer and Solution Architect with over 20 years of experience building cloud-native Data & AI platforms for financial services, retail, and enterprise transformation. He combines architectural strategy with hands-on engineering to deliver secure, scalable platforms—specializing in Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks, and enterprise DataOps/MLOps. At Microsoft he has driven cross-team initiatives around centralized telemetry, Terraform enablement, and developer onboarding, and previously led Fabric adoption and GenAI deployments for major retailers and banks. Anuj is an active contributor to open-source DataOps accelerators (including Azure-Samples/modern-data-warehouse-dataops), demonstrating practical CI/CD and infrastructure work that helps organizations operationalize governed AI. He’s known for translating complex regulatory and security requirements into production-ready systems and for mentoring teams to move from experimentation to measurable business value. Based in Melbourne, he brings a rare blend of deep platform knowledge across Microsoft and AWS plus pragmatic delivery experience inside global banks.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics & Instrumentation, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics & Instrumentation at Motivational Pathway
English, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
azure10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
bicep10
devops10
cicd10
factory9
data-engineering9
infrastructure-as-code9
azure-data-factory9
azure-synapse9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/modern-data-warehouse-dataops
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
DataOps for Microsoft Data Platform technologies. https://aka.ms/dataops-repo
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Data Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Data EngineerContributions:237 reviews, 14 commits, 89 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Anuj primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment tasks, specifically within the context of an Azure Synapse environment. Their contributions include modifying deployment scripts (Bash) and Bicep templates to address bugs and incorporate features like an overwrite flag during data uploads. The user made significant changes to the CI/CD pipeline by updating a YAML file. They also worked on setting up service principals and managing storage resources.
databricksdatafactorywarehousedatadevops
cse-labs/dataops-code-samples
Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
This repository is to hold small sample code snippets for DataOps section of SolutionOps playbook. It would also hold the IaC scripts for Data Mesh hack created by DTD team.
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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