Pankaj Shukla
Senior Director at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorPankaj Shukla is a Senior Director and engineering leader with 25 years of deep expertise across public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure, networking, and security. He combines TCP/IP and routing protocol mastery with practical experience in cloud-native PaaS networking, security services, and large-scale reliability, deployment, and monitoring. At Microsoft he has progressed from senior engineer to director, driving infrastructure features and stability—his open-source contributions to the prominent Azure PowerShell repo include adding accelerated virtual network datapath support and focused refactors that improve maintainability. Known for tackling hard distributed-systems problems, he blends protocol-level rigor with product-focused delivery and continuous improvement. Based in Mountain View, he brings a rare mix of hands-on code contributions and senior leadership across the networking stack.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
powershell10
azure10
microsoft-azure10
expressjs9
networking8
testing6
cicd5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-powershell
Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pankaj's commits primarily involve merging branches and refactoring code within the `azure-powershell` repository, indicating a focus on integrating changes and maintaining code stability. They also introduced a new feature related to accelerated virtual network datapath for ExpressRoute, as demonstrated by adding a switch and associated test cases. The changes extend to the modification of properties and resources within the compute and network resource managers. Overall, the contributions reflect a role in enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Azure PowerShell modules.
microsoft-azure-powershellpowershellmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
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