Aviral Takkar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAviral Takkar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Santa Barbara with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure at Microsoft. He architects and leads the container registry runtime at Azure, driving reliability and scalability for a critical component of container supply chains. Rising through multiple engineering levels since joining Microsoft as an intern, he blends hands-on systems design with team-level technical leadership. His background includes a Master’s from UC Santa Barbara and a bachelor’s from Delhi College of Engineering, reflecting strong academic foundations in software engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who focuses on operability and developer experience in production systems. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent internal progression, signaling both deep domain expertise and effective cross-functional influence.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Delhi College of EngineeringMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of California, Santa Barbara
Punjabi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (62)
container10
docker10
acr10
azure-app-service10
verify10
docker-registry10
harbor10
azure-container-registry10
signing9
sbml9
asset-pipeline9
computational-biology9
systems-biology9
azure8
notary8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aviral26/acr-checkhealth
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Tool to check the health of various Azure Container Registry APIs
Contributions:26 PRs, 46 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 1 month
healthazure-containerazure-container-registryazurecontainer-registry
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