Sambit Rath
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSambit Rath is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and DevOps automation, currently at Microsoft after progressing from intern to senior engineer. He specializes in backup and recovery tooling for large cloud platforms, contributing significant features to high-profile open-source projects like Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell—adding File Share and VM backup commands, SQL and SAP HANA support, and CI/CD enhancements. His work spans shipping new cmdlets, test suites, SDK integrations, and long-term retention policies, demonstrating both feature delivery and operational rigor. An IIT Hyderabad engineering graduate with top grades, he pairs strong academic foundations with practical cloud engineering, and quietly blends product-focused development with infrastructure automation to make complex backup scenarios reliable and testable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Science, 8.93, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Science, 8.93 at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
English, Odia, Hindi
Github Skills (28)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
microsoft-azure10
recovery10
azure-cli10
backup10
powershell10
rest-api10
azure10
testing9
csharp9
dotnet-core9
devops9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 23 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Sambit's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Azure CLI's capabilities related to Azure Backup, specifically adding features for Azure File Share and VM backup. This included implementing new commands, tests, and parameter updates to support these features. They also worked on integrating SQL and SAP HANA backup support, indicating involvement in extending the CLI's scope to broader Azure services. The user further demonstrated DevOps skills through the addition of CI/CD pipeline features and automation.
command-line-interfacecloudazurecommand-lineazure-cli
Azure/azure-powershell
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
Microsoft Azure PowerShell
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 26 commits, 76 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sambit contributed to the Azure PowerShell module, primarily focusing on the Recovery Services Backup component. Their work involved updating regular expressions, integrating SDK updates, and implementing new cmdlets for features like soft delete. Furthermore, they introduced changes for disk exclusion and added long-term retention support for Azure FileShare policies, demonstrating expertise in backup and recovery workflows. Additionally, the user modified existing tests, adding a new testing suite to validate the newly introduced functionalities.
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