Summary
Soham Pardeshi is a software engineer at Microsoft in Seattle with 11 years of hands-on experience building distributed storage systems for Azure Storage. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Washington and blends technical depth with interests in epistemology and AI theory. Soham has a strong teaching and mentorship streak—he’s lectured and TA’d multiple CSE courses at UW and runs K-16 programming instruction in his spare time. His internship and early-career roles span cloud services, DevOps, and secure proxies, giving him practical experience across reliability, telemetry-driven decision making, and secure agent architectures. He pairs production engineering skills with a curiosity for how philosophical ideas inform AI, and enjoys reading, gaming, and meeting new people outside of work.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at De Anza College
Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Science at University of Washington
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Homestead High School
English, Spanish