Arun Ramachandran
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArun Ramachandran is a Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience building cloud and edge solutions, currently leading development for Azure Stack Edge, Gateway, and StorSimple at Microsoft in Redmond. He combines deep systems and embedded roots—from Symbian and Nokia multimedia stacks to modern Azure hybrid-cloud services—with hands-on expertise in C#, C++, and RESTful backend design. Arun excels at full lifecycle delivery: scoping, estimation, design, testing, and operationalizing high-availability cloud services while balancing security, performance, and scale. He provides technical leadership that helps teams navigate tight schedules and ambiguous requirements, and has driven live-site incident resolution and cross-team releases. An active contributor to the Azure PowerShell backend—improving StorSimple migration cmdlets and refactoring bandwidth and data-migration logic—he brings both product-focused craftsmanship and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. His background in embedded systems and telecom audio gives him an uncommon lens for optimizing hard real-time and data-ingestion workloads at the cloud edge.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded System Design, Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded System Design at Centre for Development of Advanced ComputingBachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering at University of Kerala
Github Skills (11)
powershell10
azure10
backend10
microsoft-azure10
back-end-development10
migration10
apidoc9
api9
azure-powershell8
dotnet-core8
csharp8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
Azure/azure-powershell
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
Contributions summary:Arun primarily worked on the backend of the Azure PowerShell module, focusing on StorSimple migration features. Their contributions include implementing new cmdlets, updating existing ones to support migration, and fixing issues related to data container migration. They also refactored code, optimized the bandwidth rate conversion, and updated the output messages for improved clarity and user experience. Furthermore, they addressed bugs and applied code cleanup efforts.
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AzCiS/azure-powershell
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 36 pushes, 8 comments in 7 months
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