Dilshad Akhter
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDilshad Akhter is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 20 years of software development experience and eight years in people and program leadership roles delivering cloud and management experiences. Based in Redmond, he leads teams on Azure management and unified resource management at scale, previously driving log analytics in Microsoft Operations Management and leading VMM fabric and compute pillars. He combines deep systems and cloud engineering expertise with product-facing responsibilities—owning setup, upgrade, monitoring, disaster recovery and multi-tenant scenarios across large distributed systems. Known for blending hands-on architecture with team coaching, he has moved from foundational product work in Office and Small Business Server to shaping Azure management experiences. His background spans a B.Sc. from BUET and graduate work at Virginia Tech, grounding a pragmatic approach to complex operational problems. A subtle strength is his consistency in shepherding long-lived platform features from engineering through upgrade and localization, ensuring customer-facing reliability over years.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechB.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering, B.Sc., Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Bengali
Github Skills (8)
azure10
rest-api10
swagger10
api10
microsoft-azure10
rest10
openapi10
microsoft10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Azure/azure-rest-api-specs
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:3 commits in 9 months
apicloudspecificationsrestmicrosoft-azure
dashimi32/DilshadTestPlugins
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:2 branches in 1 day
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