Vijay Varkhedi
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
California, United States
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Top SchoolVijay Varkhedi is a Principal Software Engineer with 18+ years of hands-on experience designing and modernizing build, release, and CI/CD infrastructures across enterprise and cloud-native environments. Based in California, he has driven release engineering and automation at Microsoft (following Fungible’s acquisition), Cisco, HPE, Yahoo, Broadcom and Synopsys, consistently turning legacy build systems into automated, policy-compliant pipelines. He specializes in version control, change tracking, build acceleration and environment provisioning, with a track record of enabling SOX/PCI-compliant deployments and large-scale daily builds. Known for bridging engineering and process, he helps teams adopt agile practices while architecting reproducible release workflows. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus with additional software specialization from CDAC Mumbai, he blends systems-level rigor from a non-traditional naval architecture background with deep release engineering expertise. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that reduce cycle time and improve auditability in complex product stacks.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, KharagpurDiploma in Software Technology Computer Software Engineering, Diploma in Software Technology Computer Software Engineering at National Centre for Software Technology (CDAC), MumbaiProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
fungible-inc/edk2
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
Copy of https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
Contributions:2 reviews, 162 commits, 10 branches in 2 years 7 months
funvijay/hello-world
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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