Varun Puranik
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVarun Puranik is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with nine years of focused experience in cloud and IoT engineering, and a longer tenure across .NET, enterprise SaaS, and distributed systems. He leads teams building OSS-based Azure IoT pipelines and has hands-on experience delivering core back-end features—contributing to high-profile Azure repos like azure-iot-sdk-csharp and iotedge where he improved module authentication, AMQP/MQTT converters, and Edge Agent diagnostics. Varun combines deep systems engineering (Akka, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra) with product-minded architecture, having built certified Kafka connectors to bridge OSS ecosystems with Azure IoT. He rose through roles spanning Dynamics Lifecycle Services to core WCF/WF platform work, owning backend data, security, and BI components. Based in Bellevue, he blends managerial leadership with active open-source contributions that keep him close to the implementation details his teams rely on.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony BrookBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University
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Github Skills (19)
hub10
messaging10
amqp10
azure-sdk10
message-system10
azure-iothub10
azure-iot-edge10
message-handler10
iot10
dotnet-core10
message-bus10
csharp10
messagebox10
mqttnet9
mqtt9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/iotedge
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
The IoT Edge OSS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:847 reviews, 495 commits, 543 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Varun's primary contributions focused on adding features and modifying the Edge Agent within the `azure/iotedge` repository. They implemented a "ping" method within the EdgeAgent to check the status of a module, and integrated logic to handle subscriptions for device modules. They also focused on several code changes which include fixing an issue with the C# SDK and made changes in the amqp and mqtt message converters. The user appears to be primarily involved in back-end functionality and integration with the Azure IoT Edge platform.
edge-computingossmqttedgeopc
Azure/azure-iot-sdk-csharp
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
A C# SDK for connecting devices to Microsoft Azure IoT services
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 46 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Varun primarily contributed to the C# SDK for Azure IoT services, focusing on module authentication and message handling. They addressed issues in module authentication, fixing and reverting changes related to token creation and connection string population. Additionally, they enhanced the Amqp transport layer to support receiving telemetry events from EdgeHub within modules and corrected issues related to message completion. The user also updated NuGet package versions for the client and shared libraries.
dotnetazure-iotsdkcsharpmicrosoft-azure
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