Sumit Bhardwaj
Software Engineer, Azure Host Networking at Microsoft
Sammamish, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Bhardwaj is a systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, cross-platform infrastructure for Azure and large-scale services. Currently on Azure Host Networking, he has a track record of improving developer experience, bootstrapping engineering systems, and building tooling that speeds debugging and secures supply chains across the Azure fleet. He has driven cross-platform modernization projects—bringing C++17, Clang/GCC support, and .NET SDK-style C# integration into long-lived codebases like Microsoft Bond and CMake. Sumit’s work reduces incident time and developer friction, from enabling crash-to-source debugging to creating end-to-end memory-safety and testing frameworks. An active open source contributor, he made concrete modernizations to the widely used microsoft/bond framework and upstream CMake to support modern build scenarios. Trained as an electrical engineer with advanced studies, he pairs rigorous technical depth with practical impact across cloud, developer tooling, and experimentation platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)University of California, San DiegoJNV Darbhanga
German, Maithili, Hindi, English
Github Skills (14)
c1710
c-language10
cmake10
cpp10
csharp10
cprogramming-language10
msvcrt10
dotnet-core10
msbuild9
dotnet-sdk9
sdk9
net-sdk9
appveyor8
cicd6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/bond
Apr 2020 - Oct 2021
Bond was a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. The open-source project ended on March 31, 2025.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Bond framework's C++ codebase. Their contributions include addressing deprecated features in C++17, such as `std::result_of_t`, and updating the code to use the replacement, `std::invoke_result_t`. They also cleaned up MSVC 2013 conditional code and removed MSVC 2013 workarounds, indicating a focus on code modernization and platform compatibility. Further contributions involve updating the AppVeyor configuration and adding missing include statements for C++ examples.
dotnetcross-languageserializationscalegeneric
Kitware/CMake
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily focused on enhancing the CMake build system's support for C# projects within the CMake ecosystem. Their contributions involve refining the C# compiler integration by adjusting compiler flags, handling definitions, and updating the Visual Studio project generation process. These changes ensure proper configuration and build processes for C# code within the CMake build environment. The user also introduced features related to .NET SDK style projects, enabling compatibility with modern C# project structures.
cppcmakeupstream
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