Narendra Rana
Principal Development Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNarendra Rana is a Principal Development Manager at Microsoft with 9 years of focused experience in mining large-scale user interaction data and turning it into product-impacting insights. He has led teams across Bing, Clarity, Maps, and Cortana, delivering features like Rage/Dead Click detection and recommendation systems that measurably improved engagement and reduced costs. Known for blending data science with backend engineering, he has driven projects that increased Clarity portal time by >9% and saved 7% of Bing’s serving capacity through smarter bot detection. Narendra’s work spans experimentation, ML-backed recommendations, and production-grade analytics infrastructure, often translating internal insights into industry-visible UX changes. Based in the Greater Seattle area, he combines deep systems thinking with practical delivery—building tools and dashboards still relied upon across Microsoft. An underrated strength is his ability to operationalize research into scalable products that influence both Microsoft properties and external customers.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Guru Ramdas Khalsa Institute of Science and Technology Jabalpur M.P.
Hindi, English, Punjabi
Github Skills (17)
heatmap10
clarity9
google-analytics8
strings7
datasets7
session-replay7
dom7
disk5
analytics5
lists5
in-memory4
redis4
data-model4
database4
key-value3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/BingCoronavirusQuerySet
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Dataset containing Aggregated and anonymized queries from across the world with Coronavirus intent.
Contributions:26 commits, 35 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 3 months
anonymizeddatasetintentdatasetsqueries
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