Shalabh Shrivastava is a Senior Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms, currently building agentic AI at Oracle after a long tenure driving strategic Azure initiatives at Microsoft. He has repeatedly taken products from 0 to 1 and scaled them to cloud-grade reliability—working across Azure Cache, Service Fabric, Azure Arc, and leading contributions to Microsoft Copilot in Azure. A core founding contributor to Dapr and Radius, he blends deep backend systems expertise with open-source stewardship, including notable work on Dapr components, CLI, and .NET SDK actor plumbing. He’s experienced in live-site ownership, billing integrations for Arc, and building transactional distributed stores and observability primitives. Based in Redmond, Shalabh pairs hands-on engineering and team building, routinely mentoring engineers while establishing processes that accelerate delivery. Less obvious: his career threads show a rare mix of product incubation, long-term maintenance of critical cloud infrastructure, and consistent upstream open-source impact.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
9-12th, 9-12th at Maheshwari Higher Secondary School Jaipur
Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Contributions:17 commits, 14 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Shalabh primarily contributed to the Dapr CLI, focusing on enhancing functionality and improving the codebase. Their work included adding code comments for release checklists, enhancing status event reporting, and making changes related to actor state persistence. They also updated the Dapr init process, along with supporting runtime version flags. These contributions demonstrate a focus on maintaining and improving the command-line tools of the Dapr project.
Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 69 commits, 120 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Shalabh primarily contributed to improving code comments and correcting them within the codebase as part of release checklists. They made modifications to various files related to diagnostics, actor configurations, components, and channel responses. These changes involved updating documentation, which suggests a focus on code maintainability and clarity, likely for internal developers. The user also addressed Kubernetes service removal and added supporting unit tests, indicating some experience in managing and testing cloud-native applications.
sidecarserverlessruntimeevent-drivenmicroservice
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Shalabh Shrivastava - Senior Principal Software Engineer - AI at Oracle