Prayas Arora
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPrayas Arora is a pragmatic software engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance systems for cloud and real-time video applications, currently optimizing the IC3 video pipeline for Microsoft Teams. He has deep practical experience across video codecs, hardware offload, and compression algorithms at Microsoft, and prior work delivering identity and access management features at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for enterprise customers like Toyota and Netflix. His background in ASIC tooling and parallel voltage-drop analysis at ANSYS, together with hands-on compiler and simulator work during internships, gives him a rare blend of low-level systems, multimedia, and cloud service expertise. Known for troubleshooting complex production issues and serving as a first-line on-call engineer, he combines rigorous engineering (9.2/10 BE) with a track record of shipping reliable features that improve performance and reduce resource use.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Schooling, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, Physical Education, 93.4%, Higher Secondary Schooling, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English, Physical Education, 93.4% at SanawarSenior Secondary Schooling, 10 CGPA, Senior Secondary Schooling, 10 CGPA at St. Joseph's Convent SchoolBachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, 9.2/10, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering, 9.2/10 at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (15)
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fpga9
synthesis9
verilog9
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vlsi8
prepare6
elevation5
latitude-longitude5
csv4
scraper4
asic3
jekyll-theme2
jekyll2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prayas-arora/The-Society-Fare
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
prayas-arora/Library-Project--Attendance_Management_System
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
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