About

Rakesh Kumar is a highly skilled Software Engineer II at Microsoft, with over 6 years of relevant experience in the field. His current focus is on Azure Stack, where he has been contributing to the development of cutting-edge software solutions. Rakesh has a strong background in Computer Engineering, having completed his Master's degree from Purdue University in 2019. Prior to that, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2015. Rakesh's professional journey began as an Engineering Intern at ThoughtSpot, where he worked on Time Series Analysis and Text Analysis using R and Python. During his time there, he designed and developed ARIMA and ETS models for time series outliers detection and correction, as well as forecasting. He also automated the hyper-parameters estimation of these models for any time series data. Additionally, Rakesh developed a POS tagging-based key phrase extractor to generate phrase clouds from a list of comments. After his internship, Rakesh joined Microsoft as a Software Engineer, where he continued to work on Azure Stack. He has since been promoted to the position of Software Engineer II, where he is responsible for developing software solutions that meet the needs of the market. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Azure, Parts-of-speech, and Python. Rakesh is a highly motivated individual who is always looking to learn and grow. He is passionate about developing innovative software solutions that solve real-world problems. With his strong technical background and experience, Rakesh is a valuable asset to any team he works with.