Summary
Shubham Bhardwaj is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with eight years' experience building AI-driven, distributed systems and migrating large Office Online services to .NET Core using Retrieval-Augmented Generation and knowledge-base backed workflows. He implements LLM-powered features across Word, PowerPoint and Excel and has end-to-end ownership of the Reply At Mention Service while collaborating with Microsoft Research to productionize applied AI. A strong foundation from BITS Pilani (CS, minor in Finance) and certifications in ML, DevOps CI/CD, and GCP complement his hands-on experience at Oracle, HSBC and Nutanix. Beyond engineering, he volunteers on Crowd2Map to map Tanzanian communities using satellite imagery—bringing technical skills to social impact work protecting girls from FGM. An avid tennis, squash and badminton player, he blends technical rigor with a team-oriented, multidisciplinary approach to solving complex product and data-retrieval challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science