Shashwat Gupta is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft in Redmond with 13 years of experience building and leading teams across cloud identity and developer tooling. He has progressed through software and senior engineering roles at Microsoft since 2011, now empowering Azure AD and driving delivery of scalable, secure platform features. His background includes deep hands-on work in DevOps and test automation—contributing to the widely used microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks repository—reflecting practical expertise in pipeline deployment, test-agent configuration, and distributed test execution. Earlier experience in telecom billing systems and a combined B.Tech/M.Tech from IIITM Gwalior give him a strong foundation in systems and product engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who combines people management with frequent, code-level contributions to improve CI/CD and operational reliability.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Integrated Post Graduate, B.Tech + M.Tech, Integrated Post Graduate, B.Tech + M.Tech at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior
Contributions:36 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Shashwat primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the Azure Pipelines tasks. They made changes to the `DeployTestAgent.ps1` and `RunDistributedTests.ps1` scripts, introducing and modifying parameters related to test agent deployment, data collection, and test execution. These changes suggest a focus on improving the automation and configuration of testing pipelines, likely within an Azure DevOps environment. The user also made contributions to `TestAgentConfiguration.ps1` and `RunPowerShellOnTargetMachines.ps1`, which further suggests expertise in environment setup and machine configuration.
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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Shashwat Gupta - Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft