Utkarsh Kajaria
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolUtkarsh Kajaria is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency, distributed systems and large-scale data pipelines, now working on Azure Storage at Microsoft. He has driven major performance wins—such as an 80% worst-case latency reduction and 10x faster ad updates—by re-architecting Kafka-based distribution pipelines and parallelizing critical paths. Comfortable on-call for revenue-critical services, he pairs pragmatic incident response with proactive design improvements and mentorship through code reviews and interviews. With a Master’s in Data Science from the University of Minnesota and a background spanning ad tech, cloud storage, and mobile platforms, he blends data-driven engineering with production-hardened systems thinking. Notably, his career shows a pattern of turning operational pain points into scalable, consumable platform features used company-wide.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Data Science, Master’s Degree Data Science at University of MinnesotaBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at BMS College of EngineeringComputer Science, Computer Science at Bhavan's Gangabux Kanoria VidyamandirST. Lawrence High School
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Github Skills (7)
powershell6
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credentials6
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continuous-integration6
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Github contributions (5)
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
uk27/Real-Time-Log-Analytics-with-Hadoop-Kafka-Spark
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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