Vishal Kumar
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVishal Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and microservice platforms, now driving engineering at Microsoft from Bengaluru. He has a strong full-stack background across Node.js/TypeScript, Go, Java, PostgreSQL and containerized deployments, and has led authentication and analytics infrastructure at product-stage companies. His career spans senior roles at Whatfix and Google and hands-on ownership of metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), mentoring, and API and frontend initiatives that introduced React/Redux at MindTickle. Vishal has a track record of optimizing for low-bandwidth environments and building lightweight server-side rendered experiences early in his career. He combines deep implementation skills with team leadership—reviewing PRs, dividing work, and guiding architecture decisions. A technologist trained at IIIT Allahabad, he blends startup agility with enterprise-scale engineering practices.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad 
Github Skills (3)
jquery7
dom6
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
vishalok12/jquery-dragarrange
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
draggingjqueryarrangeelementsjavascript
vishalok12/vocabapp
May 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:174 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year
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