Krishnadhan Das is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and ML-enabled services across Microsoft, Apple, and LinkedIn. He has deep expertise in big data job management and resource scheduling—having owned components that run petabyte-scale jobs and manage clusters of 250k+ servers—and has also driven ink-analysis and real-time gesture recognition features across Office and OneNote. Comfortable spanning low-level kernel and networking work to cloud-native microservices, he repeatedly improves performance and reliability (notably pushing SmartArt load times from seconds to milliseconds and building 99.9999% reliable job managers). Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs hands-on engineering with cross-team integration and on-call operational ownership, and brings an IIT Bombay M.Tech background that underpins his systems-first approach. An interesting through-line: he has moved seamlessly between kernel networking, high-performance client features, and large distributed back-end schedulers—showing rare breadth across the full stack of compute infrastructure.
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Krishnadhan Das - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft