Dakshayan Varshney is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with eight years of experience building distributed systems, cloud services, and high-performance solutions, currently focused on Azure Core Infrastructure’s Maintenance Control team. He blends strong systems programming skills in Python, C++, Java, and C# with a data-science-informed mindset from his Computer Engineering degree and Data Science specialization at UIUC. His work has improved fleet upgrade velocity and machine compliance across millions of machines without quorum loss, balancing operational rigor with SLA-driven availability. Past internships and research span cloud backends, runtime load balancing, robotics gait analysis, and audio synthesis, reflecting a rare mix of production engineering and hands-on academic exploration. Based in Seattle, he’s equally comfortable optimizing low-level performance and applying ML or data-driven approaches to distributed systems challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at Modern School, Barakhamba Road
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Dakshayan Varshney - Software Engineer II at Microsoft