Shambhu聽Prasad
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShambhu Prasad is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience designing and scaling resilient cloud storage and backup systems on Azure. He has led cross-functional, geo-distributed teams to deliver high-throughput geo-replication for Premium File Shares and automated livesite analysis using Copilot, improving service health and saving dozens of hours weekly. His expertise spans distributed file systems, SMB, REST APIs, data replication, and performance optimization鈥攄emonstrated by driving 8脳 TPS and 4脳 throughput improvements at hyperscale. A hands-on leader, he combines systems-level engineering (including contributions to an open-source XMPP server module) with AI/ML-driven tooling to reduce incident analysis from hours to minutes. He is especially skilled at translating customer impact into technical priorities, mentoring engineers, and building durable roadmaps that balance immediate reliability with long-term product vision. Based in Redmond and trained at IIT Kharagpur, he blends deep infrastructure chops with a knack for operational automation and cross-team influence.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, High School, Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Xavier's High School, PatnaBachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi
Github Skills (4)
erlang10
xmpp10
messaging10
chat9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
esl/MongooseIM
May 2014 - Aug 2014
MongooseIM is Erlang Solutions' robust, scalable and efficient XMPP server, aimed at large installations. Specifically designed for enterprise purposes, it is fault-tolerant and can utilise the resources of multiple clustered machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Shambhu contributed to the `mod_carboncopy.erl` file, which is part of an XMPP server. The commits focus on implementing and refining message carbon copy functionality, including classifying packets, handling different message types, and forwarding copies. The changes involve modifications to the packet handling logic, adding functions for specific packet checks, and exporting functions for testing purposes. The user also made minor adjustments to other files like `ejabberd_sm.erl` and `mod_mam_utils.erl`.
fault-tolerantscalablexmpp-servererlangxmpp
shambhuprasad58/galileo
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 29 days
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