Vikas Palaskar
Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVikas Palaskar is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft with nine years at the company and over two decades of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and machine learning-forward services. He specializes in microservices, API design, and scalable architectures, currently contributing to Microsoft Translator in Redmond. His background spans hands-on development across C#, .NET, ETL, and Azure from earlier roles as an architect and senior engineer, giving him deep operational knowledge of data pipelines and backend systems. Vikas blends product-focused engineering with platform thinking—designing reliable services that enable downstream ML and localization workloads. He is comfortable bridging legacy enterprise stacks and modern cloud patterns, and his long tenure at Microsoft reflects both technical depth and sustained impact. Colleagues find him pragmatic and detail-oriented, often surfacing implementation trade-offs that improve reliability and performance.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada UniversityHigh School, Physical Sciences, Distinction, High School, Physical Sciences, Distinction at Dayanand Science College, LaturHigh School, General Studies, Distinction, High School, General Studies, Distinction at Zilla Parishad High School, Pethshivani
Hindi, Marathi, English
Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vikaspalaskar/azure-sdk-for-net
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for .NET. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-net.
Contributions:32 pushes in 27 days
vikaspalaskar/azure-rest-api-specs
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
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