Himanshu Kakar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolHimanshu Kakar is a Principal Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems and microservices, currently leading engineering at Microsoft from Hyderabad. He combines deep Java and Java EE expertise with practical DevOps skills—Spring Boot, Docker, PCF, MongoDB and Jenkins—to deliver end-to-end production services across banking, aviation and telecom domains. Having progressed from hands-on developer roles at Ericsson and Nagarro to technical leadership at DBS and Oracle, he brings both product and services experience and a track record of shipping resilient, cloud-native systems. Known for a curious, technology-hungry mindset reflected in his GitHub presence, he blends coding craftsmanship with platform thinking to reduce operational friction. Notably, he has repeatedly driven microservices adoption and automation in regulated banking environments, balancing velocity with reliability.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Amity UniversitySt. Michael's School (Durgapur)
Github Skills (8)
protoc10
interchange10
rpc10
data-interchange10
protobuf10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
himkak/notes
Apr 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
himkak/library
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year
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