Rajat Agrawal
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRajat Agrawal is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently at Microsoft where he progressed from intern roles to Software Engineer 2 working on backend and deployment automation. He specializes in backend development and DevOps for cloud-native pipelines, with notable open-source contributions to high-profile Microsoft Azure Pipelines repositories—improving IIS management, PowerShell task automation, and Azure File Copy reliability. A BITS Pilani computer science graduate with a minor in finance, he pairs strong problem-solving skills with practical experience in Spring Boot, WDK, and deployment tooling. Rajat’s background across driver development, credit-line APIs, and CI/CD tasks gives him a rare blend of low-level systems knowledge and cloud deployment expertise.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (14)
azure-pipelines10
iis10
powershell10
web-deploy10
devops10
web-deployment10
iis-server10
cicd9
test-automation9
azure-blob-storage9
windows8
resource-manager7
arm7
azure-resource-manager7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Sep 2016 - Jul 2019
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:318 commits, 149 PRs, 168 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rajat's commits primarily involve the creation and modification of PowerShell scripts related to Azure Pipelines tasks. These changes include the development of functions for accessing Azure resources, implementing authentication methods, and integrating REST API calls. A significant portion of their work focuses on enhancing the Azure File Copy task by incorporating features such as proxy support and improvements for Azure Blob storage operations. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and reliability of Azure-related deployment automation.
azure-pipelines
microsoft/azure-pipelines-extensions
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Collection of all RM and deployment extensions
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:47 commits, 31 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rajat primarily contributed to enhancing and fixing the IIS management tasks within the Azure Pipelines extensions. Their work involved modifying PowerShell scripts related to IIS configuration, including binding, SSL certificate management, and application pool operations. Furthermore, the user addressed dependency issues by removing Pester and updated test files demonstrating their involvement in test maintenance and automation. The commits demonstrate a strong focus on improving the functionality and reliability of deployment tasks for IIS web applications.
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