About

Rohit Singh is an accomplished Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 20 years of experience leading software development teams to build distributed systems with large scale and high performance. As a Technical Leader for a large software development team, he is responsible for the engineering and operations of business-critical enterprise apps used by Microsoft employees worldwide. Rohit is known for providing technical guidance throughout the product lifecycle including system design, code reviews, improving operational efficiency, and DevOps practices. He has devised the engineering roadmap to change the existing monolithic architecture to cloud-native micro-services architecture to support future business scale. He has also introduced the Twelve-Factor app design pattern and used multi-repo, container-based deployments, which increased the overall deployment frequency rate by 38%. With his expertise in Agile-Scrum methodology, Rohit has successfully planned, executed, and delivered more than 15+ major feature releases and 100+ minor releases in a fast-paced environment to support critical business requirements. He has also effectively reorganized team size of 120+ engineers into small scrum teams and introduced a story point estimation model, which improved the predictability of project releases and capacity planning. Rohit has received the Outstanding Teamwork award to build partnership across a cross-organization v-team to design and build a forecasting solution in record time. The solution reduced the overall forecasting process by more than 50%. Using the solution, the finance team was able to forecast 1.5B+ revenue in a very short time. He has also improved the availability of applications from 98% to 99.2% of an internal application by designing the Cloud services and migrating on-premises dependencies to Azure PaaS. As a people manager, Rohit is actively engaged in hiring, coaching, mentoring, managing rewards, compensation, and promotions to improve work-life-balance for his team. He has experience with C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET, NodeJS, ReactJS, JavaScript, SQL Server, MongoDB, and PowerShell. He has also used Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps (CI/CD) to set up a zero-touch release model reducing deploying error rate by 23%. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Rohit has also bootstrapped two mobile apps on Google Play Store. He has experience in the retail domain implementing Dynamics AX (Retail) for customers in Europe. Rohit has a B.Sc in Physics from the Maharaja Sayajirao University and completed his