Sashu Shankar
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSashu Shankar is a software engineer with six years of experience building delivery and release experiences for Microsoft 365, currently working on Office 365 Copilot, Search Extensibility, and M365 Core Safe Velocity. He has progressed from internships to a full-time role at Microsoft, blending customer-facing engineering with platform reliability to accelerate safe rollouts at scale. His background includes hands-on modernization work and a stint at Pulumi, giving him exposure to cloud-native tooling and infrastructure automation. As an undergraduate teaching assistant in algorithms and data structures, he brings strong CS fundamentals and a knack for explaining complex systems. Based in Redmond, he combines production-focused engineering with a product-aware mindset that bridges customer success and core platform teams. Notably, his career path reflects an ability to move quickly between research-quality rigor and operationally resilient shipping.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tesla STEM High School
Github Skills (26)
dotnet10
to-yaml10
pulumi10
gcp10
aws10
sdk10
azure10
serverless10
csharp10
cloud-computing9
javascript9
kubernetes9
terraform9
python9
typescript9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pulumi/kube2pulumi
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Upgrade your Kubernetes YAML to a modern language
Contributions:1 review, 42 commits, 12 PRs in 1 month
kubernetesto-yamlyaml
albert-zhong/guess-that-stock
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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