Vinayak Palav
Software Developer 2 at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinayak Palav is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-performance backend services, currently contributing to Microsoft's Identity and Connected Experiences team in Redmond. He has hands-on expertise in .NET Core, Azure Service Bus, Redis caching, telemetry-driven reliability, and safe deployment architectures across multiple datacenters. His work spans improving data integrity for Recent Documents, publishing authentication libraries for Azure AD/MSA scenarios, and boosting asynchronous processing reliability by ~40% through queue-driven designs. Prior roles include performance-focused systems at FactSet and NYU research tooling that bridged C++ libraries with Python, showing a rare blend of systems-level optimization and developer-facing tooling. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful diagnostics, near-100% unit test coverage, and practical automation that reduces operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 3.3, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 3.3 at Terna Engineering College, Mumbai UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.60, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.60 at New York University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (12)
climate-science6
exploratory5
derived-data5
derived5
oceanography4
atmospheric-modelling4
python4
derive3
data-analysis3
scientific-computing3
infrastructure2
visualization2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vvpalav/Encryption-Education-Tool
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
vvpalav/TweetMap
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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