About

Prafull Gaikwad is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with over 6 years of professional experience in software development. He holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Arizona State University and is currently working as a Software Engineer 2 with Microsoft in the Outlook Groups team. Prafull is interested in Large-scale Distributed Systems and web applications, and is also proficient in data engineering responsibilities. Prafull enjoys doing backend development that contributes to core, data, ETL, and platform services. He has a keen understanding of business requirements and product architecture, which helps him deliver better performance on the assigned tasks. Prafull has worked on various projects during his tenure at Microsoft, including the development of REST Apis and EWS Apis for the Outlook Desktop Client, and the development of CRUD operations for groups entity in REST through the microservice that would proxy to Graph. Before joining Microsoft, Prafull worked as a Software Engineer 2 at Dell on the Protocols Engineering team. He has also completed his Btech in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. Prafull's technical skills include Software Engineering, Backend development, Microservices, Data Engineering, ETL, and Web development. With almost 8 years of relevant experience, Prafull is a highly skilled and motivated software professional who is always eager to learn and take on new challenges.