Kanika Chawla

Experience

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  Microsoft

  Jul 2014 - now

  Software Engineer II, Microsoft, C+E: Release, Security and Distribution (RSD) January 2016 - December 2019• Designed and working on a modern Azure solution for a legacy application (DNS) providing storage and high scale downloads for teams like Office, Visual Studio, Azure Education ensuring reliability, security and compliance. • Designed and implemented a microservices based release platform managed as a Service Fabric cluster• Developed a generic and extensible workflow execution engine that serves 1M releases per day for product groups like Office and Windows updates with release completion time <50 min (600 % response time improvement from previous systems) • Owned privacy and security reviews for the project, resolving identified threats and compliance• Co-founded DRI Focus group to establish DRI culture and service excellence switching to DevOps model• Developed a region-based traffic routing component to enable multiple lanes for a legacy application, resulting in cost savings, making us 100% region compliant and also provided a secondary backup ensuring zero downtime during DR scenarios Show less Software Engineer, Microsoft, Supply Chain June 2015 - December 2015• Built and enhanced Product Reports for part number data mastering system • Technologies: SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services), SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services), .NETSoftware Engineer, Microsoft, CPE July 2014 - May 2015• Designed and implemented bulk lookup/search APIs for organizational data for a system responsible for mastering enterprise customer data. This feature enabled sales teams to identify leads and business opportunities quickly.• Created real-time reports using Power BI for monitoring incoming traffic and tracking QoS metrics Show less

  • Software Engineer 2

    Jan 2016 - now

  • Software Engineer

    Jul 2014 - Jan 2016