Bhaskar Mallapragada is a senior software engineering manager based in Redmond with 10 years of professional experience and a longer engineering track record spanning embedded graphics, mobile, and cloud SDKs. At Microsoft he progressed from software engineer to manager, driving backend improvements and API design—most notably contributing refactors and new Cosmos DB features to the widely used Azure SDK for Java. His background includes system-level GPU and OpenGL work at AMD and FusionGarage, mobile and image-processing projects, and full-stack API development from his time at Innominds. He combines hands-on coding fluency with people leadership, shipping both low-level performance-sensitive systems and high-level cloud integrations. Colleagues appreciate that he moves comfortably between legacy C/C++/GPU codebases and modern Java/Python cloud stacks, enabling pragmatic architectural decisions that accelerate developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Java. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://docs.microsoft.com/java/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-java.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:232 reviews, 52 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Bhaskar primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the Azure SDK for Java, particularly within the Cosmos DB integration. They made significant changes to the Cosmos client and added operations for users, permissions, throughput, and conflict resolution. These contributions involved modifying core Java files within the SDK's structure and implementing new API features, which directly improves the SDK's usability for Java developers integrating with Azure services. Furthermore, the user added distinct query support and enabled query plan cache.
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Bhaskar Mallapragada - Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft