About

Rahul Venkataraman is a highly skilled Software Engineer with 6.94 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Microsoft as a Software Engineer, where he is part of the team that builds an Advanced Query service on the Azure Active Directory Data. Rahul's responsibilities include working on a scalable distributed system with multiple microservices for partitioning, indexing, and querying data efficiently. He has also implemented a pipeline involving Azure Event Hubs that spanned multiple services to process directory writes in a prioritized way, bringing write time from 15 minutes to 4 seconds for UI scenarios. In his previous roles at Microsoft, Rahul was part of the team building the AAD Change Notification Service and the various pipelines leveraging it. He developed multiple microservices, read data from the Microsoft Online Directory Services (MSODS), and delivered many thousands of critical changes per second in near real-time. He also architected and built a full object store using Azure Cosmos DB and corresponding microservices for storing and querying complete directory objects, reducing the percent of MS Graph queries by 34%. Rahul also added support for a Custom Groups claim and implemented a monitoring service to check if a list of Microsoft URLs is being flagged by external scan engines and raise alerts if needed. Rahul Venkataraman holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, where he completed his studies in 2017. Prior to that, he completed his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from PSG College of Technology in 2013. Rahul has a strong technical background and is proficient in various technologies, including Azure, Microservices, and UI development. Overall, Rahul Venkataraman is a highly motivated and skilled Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions. He is a valuable asset to any organization he works for and is always looking for ways to improve his skills and knowledge.