Samrat Gavale
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSamrat Gavale is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, multi-tenant cloud platforms at Microsoft, specializing in distributed systems, platform reliability, and developer productivity. He has end-to-end ownership experience—from ingestion and processing to APIs, UX, and live-site operations—delivering systems that handle billions of events, tens of thousands of requests per minute, and serve hundreds of thousands of daily users across tens of thousands of tenants. Recently he led technical work on Power Platform Connectors and Dataverse to enable secure, connector-based AI and Copilot experiences, including mitigation of a critical security issue impacting 133K+ connectors with zero customer escalations. Samrat combines deep performance and cost optimization skills (driving a ~$19K/month Azure spend reduction while improving reliability) with strong cross-team leadership, mentoring, and incident command. He thrives in high-ambiguity environments involving legacy systems and non-trivial blast radii, and has a track record of raising service maturity through improved auth models, monitoring, and deployment safety. Based in Redmond and an IIT alumnus, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for long-term sustainability and measurable developer impact.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (26)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
console10
windows10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
powerapps10
visual-studio10
vscode10
command-line10
logic10
cmd10
windows-terminal9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samrat-gavale/oaf
Sep 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 5 months
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samrat-gavale/vscode
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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