Pradyumna Naik
Software Engineer II @ Microsoft · Hyderabad, India
Experience & education
- Education
2018 — 2022
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela
B.Tech (Honours), Computer Science
- Experience
May 2021 — Jul 2021
Software Engineer Intern
Microsoft · Hyderabad, India
Role highlights
- Built a Joblet to sync Consumer Quota data in SharePoint and implemented Non-Renewable Legacy Plan support, from design through production deployment.
- Experience
Jul 2022 — Aug 2025
Software Engineer
Microsoft · Hyderabad, India
Role highlights
- Scaled the Signals data pipeline from 3 billion to 8 billion events/day via Just-in-Time provisioning, enhanced retry, and split-compute architecture on Azure Event Hubs — holding the 95th percentile SLA throughout scale-out.
- Architected Buildout Automation for the Audit & Signals microservice on Azure, reducing new region provisioning time from days to hours.
- Led C# instrumentation migration from the Common Instrumentation Layer to SharePoint and eliminated security vulnerabilities, improving distributed tracing and observability across the pipeline.
- Owned resolution of production incidents and escalations, diagnosing failures across distributed microservices and Azure data infrastructure.
- Experience
Aug 2025 — Present
Software Engineer II
Microsoft · Hyderabad, India
Current role
Role highlights
- Own core components of the Audit & Signals data platform for OneDrive and SharePoint, engineering scalable, fault-tolerant C# distributed pipelines that ingest and process 50 billion events/day at a 10-second 95th percentile SLA.
- Drove end-to-end bring-up of the SDE data microservice in a new sovereign region, coordinating provisioning, configuration, and validation to achieve production readiness.
- Redesigned a core audit REST API responsible for 40% of total audit volume, evolving it from single-user to multi-user batched requests to improve throughput and reduce per-request overhead.
- Mentor junior engineers and lead code reviews, setting engineering and pipeline build standards across the team.
Skills
- Languages
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- C#
- Python
- SQL
- C / C++
- JavaScript
- Data & Streaming
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- Apache Spark
- PySpark
- Spark SQL
- Azure Event Hubs
- Azure Service Bus
- Platform
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- Azure
- .NET
- Distributed Systems
- REST APIs
- Observability
Contact
Working on something at scale?
I am happy to talk about distributed data platforms and streaming pipelines. Send a note and I will reply.