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Pranav Tripathi

Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead


Summary

Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead with 13+ years of experience building and shipping products used by 400M+ people. Proven track record at Microsoft, Workday, Goldman Sachs, and Oracle delivering scalable distributed systems, AI-powered consumer features, and enterprise platforms. IIT BHU alumnus. Based in Vancouver, Canada.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead Microsoft

Nov 2025 — Present · Vancouver, Canada
  • Leading AI initiatives on the XBOX Gaming AI team
  • Driving architecture and development of responsible AI and ML-powered gaming features
  • Building scalable systems with React, .NET, and machine learning pipelines

Staff Software Engineer (SDE-4) Workday

Feb 2024 — Nov 2025 · Vancouver, Canada
  • Designed scalable, fault-tolerant services for Revenue & Billing — ensuring reliability for Fortune 500 clients processing billions in financial transactions
  • Built distributed cloud-native services with Java, Spring, and MySQL optimized for high availability in multi-tenant SaaS environments
  • Delivered enhancements improving billing accuracy, invoicing automation, and revenue recognition — reducing operational costs and improving audit readiness
  • Introduced monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning that improved system reliability SLAs and reduced latency across high-volume financial workloads
  • Partnered with product managers, architects, and finance domain experts ensuring compliance with GAAP, IFRS, and regulatory standards
  • Mentored junior engineers in design, coding best practices, and system design — raising engineering quality and accelerating delivery velocity

Senior Software Engineer Microsoft

Nov 2021 — Jan 2024 · Vancouver, Canada
  • Led end-to-end development of Paint Co-Creator — Microsoft's first DALL-E AI image generation in a consumer product, serving 100M+ monthly active users
  • Architected Windows Store Backend (SPARK) to onboard Win32/MSI product catalogs into the Windows 11 Store for the first time
  • Designed and launched Project Mercury (App Backup & Restore) — a core Windows 11 feature enabling seamless app restoration across 400M+ devices
  • Developed AI Review Summarization for Microsoft Store — summarizing millions of app reviews
  • Acted as technical lead across multiple teams — defining system requirements, driving design reviews, and enforcing engineering excellence

Senior Software Engineer Microsoft

Aug 2017 — Oct 2021 · Hyderabad, India
  • Built Edge Extensions Publishing Backend (BigCat Publishing Service) from scratch — scaled ecosystem from ~300 extensions to 10,000+ in 6 months (30x growth)
  • Led developer ingestion workflow via Microsoft Partner Center for Chromium-based Edge Add-ons Store
  • Owned the Autofill platform for Microsoft Edge — delivering autocomplete migration, export/import, inline-delete, and cross-device sync for tens of millions of users
  • Awarded Microsoft 'Be a Leader' 2021 for demonstrating leadership in the Store Services team
  • Enabled ecosystem adoption positioning Microsoft Edge as a competitive browser in the Chromium era

Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead Sears Holdings India

Mar 2016 — Aug 2017 · Bengaluru, India
  • Led the core pricing service powering $1B+ monthly revenue across Sears.com and Kmart.com
  • Designed and optimized Java, Spring, and MySQL-based microservices for price computation and distribution with low-latency performance
  • Partnered with product and business teams to align pricing workflows with promotional strategies — improving profit margins and customer trust
  • Enabled real-time, high-availability pricing at scale supporting Sears' competitive e-commerce strategy

Software Engineer Goldman Sachs

Jan 2015 — Mar 2016 · Bengaluru, India
  • Built Model Inventory Platform for GS Asset Management — ensuring compliance and risk transparency
  • Developed report delivery and database purge framework using Slang, SecDb, React, and microservices
  • Collaborated with quants, risk, and compliance teams to deliver regulatory-aligned model governance
  • Improved system performance and compliance readiness, strengthening Goldman's risk management infrastructure

Software Engineer Oracle

Jun 2012 — Dec 2014 · Hyderabad, India
  • Implemented Java/J2EE-based enhancements that streamlined financial reporting workflows for enterprise customers
  • Delivered Windows 8 certification for WebADI & Report Manager — shipped to thousands of EBS customers
  • Built Office 2010 64-bit certification for global EBS customer base
  • Contributed to Oracle's flagship ERP product line, strengthening adoption among Fortune 500 customers

Key Projects

Paint Co-Creator

100M+ monthly users

DALL-E powered AI image generation built into Microsoft Paint

C# · .NET Core · Azure Cosmos DB · DALL-E · Azure Functions

Windows Apps Backup & Restore

400M+ devices

App backup and restore system shipped with every Windows 11 device

C# · .NET Core · Azure · Windows Platform

Store AI Review Summarization

Millions of reviews processed

AI-powered review summaries for Microsoft Store applications

C# · Azure AI · NLP · Azure Cosmos DB

Windows Store Backend (SPARK)

Powering Windows 11 Store

Win32 product catalog integration for the Windows 11 Store

C# · .NET Core · Azure · Microservices · SQL Server

Edge Extensions Publishing

10,000+ extensions in 6 months

Complete publishing backend for Chromium-based Microsoft Edge extensions

C# · .NET · Azure · REST APIs · Partner Center

Skills

Languages

C#, Python, TypeScript, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Go, C++

Frameworks

.NET Core, ASP.NET, React, Next.js, Spring Boot, Node.js

Cloud & Infra

Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Docker, CI/CD, Kubernetes

Databases

Cosmos DB, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, Oracle DB

System Design

Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, REST APIs, gRPC, GraphQL

AI & ML

DALL-E Integration, NLP, AI Review Systems, OpenAI APIs, Responsible AI, Threat Modeling

Tools & DevOps

Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps, VS Code, Terraform, Grafana, RabbitMQ

Frontend

React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, HTML/CSS, Responsive Design

Education

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering

2008 — 2012

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi

One of India's premier engineering institutions (IIT system). Studied algorithms, data structures, systems programming, and software engineering.

Achievements