Naren Soni
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaren Soni is a seasoned Software Engineer with 11 years of experience based in Redmond, Washington, currently building cloud-first infrastructure and developer tooling at Microsoft. He specializes in back-end development, DevOps, and test automation with a strong focus on the Azure Functions ecosystem—contributing to core projects like azure-functions-host, core-tools, templates, and the webjobs SDK. His work spans runtime reliability, CLI enhancements, template and binding implementations (including SendGrid), and deployment automation, demonstrating both feature delivery and operational hardening. Comfortable across C#, PowerShell, and build/config systems, he’s known for pragmatic fixes that improve error handling and testability. Unusually for someone focused on back-end systems, he also has hands-on mobile sync experience from earlier Android SDK work, reflecting a breadth of platform experience.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science, Information Technology, Master of Science, Information Technology at Kadi Sarva VishwavidyalayaBachelors, Computer Application, Bachelors, Computer Application at Somlalit Institute of Computer ApplicationMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (40)
unit-testing10
git10
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
net10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
android-sdk10
java10
asp-net10
javas10
api10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-functions-templates
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Azure functions templates for the azure portal, CLI, and VS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 releases, 187 reviews, 837 commits in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Naren primarily contributed to the development of Azure Functions templates, focusing on back-end logic and API integrations. Their work involved adding and updating various trigger templates (HTTP, timer, blob, queue, Event Hub, Service Bus) in C# and JavaScript, including enhancements to parameter handling and content processing. The contributions also included modifications to support GitHub webhooks, and updates related to table storage integration and email notifications via SendGrid.
azure-functionsazure-portalcli
Azure/azure-functions-core-tools
Jan 2017 - Jan 2023
Command line tools for Azure Functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 94 reviews, 128 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Naren primarily contributed to the Azure Functions Core Tools, focusing on enhancing the command-line interface (CLI). Their work included updating error messages, adding new command options (like config path for extension installations), and updating package versions for extensions. They also modified the project's build configuration and dependencies, specifically updating the webhost package and template versions, which indicates involvement in maintaining and improving the tools' functionality and dependencies.
azure-functionscommand-line-tool
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