Arun Malik
Principal Software Development Engineer Azure Core Networking at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolArun Malik is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 12+ years of experience building large-scale, secure cloud and distributed systems at Microsoft and prior enterprise organizations. Based in Redmond, he now leads the AI transformation for Azure Core Networking’s PhyNet platform, architecting a production-grade Model Context Protocol and multi-agent orchestration for autonomous, policy-aware network operations. He has a strong track record in cloud security and governance—designing distributed enforcement at Azure scale (handling millions of VNets/subscriptions) and building data pipelines processing millions of events per hour. Earlier work spans M365 Exchange migrations and performance improvements at massive scale (billions of mailboxes), showing a practical focus on latency, capacity, and cost tradeoffs. Comfortable bridging engineering and program leadership, he empowers domain experts with configuration-driven AI tooling and runs organization-wide workshops to accelerate safe adoption.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Mahatma Gandhi Mission College of Engineering 2004-2008 (University of Mumbai)
Marathi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (3)
microsoft-azure7
azure3
microsoft2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arun-malik/arun-malik.github.io
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 98 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 2 months
devmaven/cmpe226Project-eCommerceWebsite
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 10 days
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