Raghu Gatta
Senior Director Software Engineering at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaghu Gatta is a senior software engineering leader with 11 years of experience and over eight years as a Senior Director at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington. He architects and ships highly experimental, large-scale systems—ranging from Azure Quantum control stacks and the world’s first commercial hybrid quantum machine to an Azure-native “supercomputing as a service” for HPC, AI and quantum workloads. Raghu blends deep systems and firmware expertise (cryogenic control systems, superconducting EDA toolchains) with cloud-native service design and rapid product delivery across multidisciplinary teams. His background spans core Windows networking and UX platforms through to modern Azure services, and he still contributes to notable open-source projects like PowerShell (MSI/Appx packaging and signing) and PSScriptAnalyzer. Known for turning research-grade hardware and algorithms into production-grade cloud services, he also prototypes novel developer tooling such as a Quantum Copilot leveraging RAG with Azure OpenAI. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Purdue and a long track record of shipping foundational platform components across multiple Windows generations.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Purdue University
Hindi, Telugu, Arabic, French
Github Skills (18)
analyzer10
packaging10
msix10
msp10
package10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
linter10
powershell10
csharp10
package-management9
command-line-interface9
wix9
windows9
devops9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PowerShell/PSScriptAnalyzer
Mar 2015 - Mar 2016
Download ScriptAnalyzer from PowerShellGallery
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 280 commits, 234 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Raghu primarily contributed to the `powershell/psscriptanalyzer` repository by implementing new rules and features to enhance PowerShell script analysis. Their work involved adding and modifying code in the `InvokeScriptAnalyzerCommand.cs` file, as well as creating new rules within the project. These additions focused on improving the detection of code style issues, deprecations, and potential errors within PowerShell scripts, resulting in more robust and maintainable code. The user also made changes to project files, such as `.csproj` files, indicating involvement in the build process and project structure.
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PowerShell/PowerShell
May 2016 - Mar 2017
PowerShell for every system!
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 76 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Raghu primarily contributed to the build and packaging infrastructure of the PowerShell project. They implemented the capability to generate MSI and Appx packages, which involved writing PowerShell scripts and modifying build configurations. The user also created utilities for certificate generation and package signing. Furthermore, the contributions included updating package metadata and enhancing the MSI installer with features like EULA inclusion and the ability to specify install locations.
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