Jitendra Kochhar
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJitendra Kochhar is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of professional experience and a long tenure driving cloud and large-scale distributed systems on Azure. He has progressed through hands-on roles from SDE intern to principal, contributing to Azure Service Fabric and shipping consumer apps like Groove and Movies & TV across platforms. Jitendra combines deep systems and signal-processing training (MS, University of Michigan; B.Tech, IIT Roorkee) with pragmatic product delivery, bridging low-level multimedia and high-scale cloud services. He is experienced in leading teams that design, deploy, and manage stateful microservices and platform capabilities for global customers. Colleagues know him for moving between code and architecture comfortably—balancing shipping features with long-term platform reliability. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a rare blend of embedded multimedia roots and cloud-native platform leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, Major: Signal Processing, MS, Electrical Engineering, Major: Signal Processing at University of MichiganIndian Institute of Technology Roorkee
English, Hindi
Github Skills (38)
docker10
deploying10
cloud-computing10
microsoft10
stateless10
packaging10
swagger10
distributed-systems10
microsoft-azure10
azure-service-fabric10
scale10
api10
rest10
fabric10
rest-api10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jkochhar/service-fabric-cli
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Service Fabric CLI Tools
Contributions:17 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
service-fabriccli-toolsfabriccli
microsoft/service-fabric
Jun 2018 - Jan 2025
Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform for packaging, deploying, and managing stateless and stateful distributed applications and containers at large scale.
Contributions:1 review, 8 comments in 6 years 7 months
cloud-computingorchestrationdockercloudlarge-scale
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