Priyank Saxena
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPriyank Saxena is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with 8 years of professional experience leading engineering teams at Microsoft to build developer tools for AI agents in Microsoft 365. He combines hands-on backend engineering and test automation experience—evident from contributions to the popular Company Communicator Teams app where he improved UsersService reliability through focused unit tests and mock HTTP providers—with cross-functional delivery leadership. At Microsoft he progressed rapidly from individual contributor to principal manager, consistently shipping scalable, production-ready services. Known for pragmatic quality-first engineering, he blends deep technical craft with people leadership to move complex AI-enabled developer tooling from prototype to product.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at SRM IST ChennaiBishop Conrad School
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
microsoft-graph10
csharp10
xunit10
moq10
dotnet-core10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-apps-company-communicator
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Company Communicator app template
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 10 reviews, 18 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Priyank contributed to the project by writing unit tests to ensure the functionality of the UsersService, specifically focusing on batch operations and error handling. They wrote a MockHttpProvider class to simulate HTTP responses, enabling isolated testing of the service. The user's commits also included the creation of test cases that specifically address boundary conditions like an empty batch request or batch counts exceeding the expected limits. The changes demonstrate a focus on testing the services and improving the quality of the codebase.
microsoft-teamsreactcommunicatorapp-templateoffice365
priyank29/all-about-js
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
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