Vikrant Arora
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVikrant Arora is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Redmond with a strong track record building large-scale data platforms and geo-replication systems at Microsoft. Over a career spanning Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Azure Active Directory, and SQL Server, he has driven performance, reliability, and customer-facing disaster recovery features for exabyte-scale storage. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping performance and indexing improvements, customer-initiated failover, and durable workflows—with people leadership, training bootcamps and mentoring engineers from junior to senior levels. Known for troubleshooting elusive live-site issues, he blends deep systems expertise with operational rigor in high-stakes environments. Though now a manager, he retains a practitioner’s mindset from years of technical leadership and contributions to core Microsoft cloud services.
3 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad 
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vmarora/gcs-connector-for-apache-kafka
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Aiven's GCS Sink Connector for Apache Kafka®
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
vmarora/kafka-connect-restart
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
utils for check status connectors and restart if status failed
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
failedstatusutilsconnectorsstatus-check
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