Chaitanya Shrikhande
Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolChaitanya Shrikhande is a Principal Software Engineer Manager with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, DevOps-driven deployment solutions and browser experiences at Microsoft from Azure release pipelines to Edge. He combines deep systems design and algorithmic thinking with hands-on backend and automation work—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent and pipeline task extensions where he improved agent configuration, deployment group APIs, and resilient task automation. Based in Hyderabad, he has a track record of leading cross-functional teams to accelerate customer productivity through scalable Azure services and CI/CD tooling. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he often surfaces reliability improvements in deployment tasks and telemetry that reduce operational friction at scale.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Computer, Computer, B.E Computer, Computer at Pravara Engg Collage
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Github Skills (23)
apim10
configuration-management10
gulp10
cicd10
api10
build-automation10
azure-pipelines10
powershell10
devops10
deployment-automation10
scripting9
testing9
pester9
telemetry9
dotnet8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Apr 2015 - Mar 2021
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 166 commits, 182 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chaitanya's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and improving the tasks used in Azure Pipelines. Their work includes fixing bugs related to environment properties and resource credentials in tasks like CopyFilesToMachines and RunPowerShellOnTargetMachines. Furthermore, they've addressed issues related to test agent configuration and the reboot process, optimizing the deployment tasks for better performance and reliability. The user also made changes to the machine list handling, and file copy tasks to align with the functionalities of IIS & SQL tasks.
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microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
Azure Pipelines Agent 🚀
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 commits, 49 PRs, 80 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chaitanya primarily contributed to the configuration and management aspects of the Azure Pipelines Agent. They worked on updating configuration scripts, modifying service account settings, and refactoring code related to agent configuration for deployment groups and environment resources. Their contributions included integrating new APIs for deployment group management and environment configurations. The user also implemented features for configuring machine group tags and environment virtual machine resources, and updated vss-api-netcore.
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