About

Salil Sharma is a Cloud Solution Architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 14 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently working at Microsoft as a Consultant, Salil specializes in consulting on the Microsoft Cloud, designing solution architectures on AI, IoT, Big Data, Microservices, and advanced workloads. He is skilled in designing for compute, network, storage, high availability, disaster recoverability, scalability, performance, and resiliency. Salil also drives ACR with cost optimizations and is experienced in performance tuning, optimizing, and monitoring for Azure SQL databases and Azure CosmosDB. Salil is an expert in application modernization using containers and containerized application development. He is also proficient in setting up CI/CD for modern applications using Azure DevOps and Octopus. Salil is well-versed in application security design review and designing threat models. He has experience in designing bots, conversational apps, and QnA Maker/LUIS enabled intelligent bots. Salil is MIP accredited on DevOps, PaaS, MaaS, Containers, and .Net Core. Before joining Microsoft, Salil worked at TCS as an Associate Consultant. He was responsible for architecting and implementing IoT solutions and enterprise-wide content management using Microsoft Cloud-related technologies. Salil has experience in working with modern applications using cloud technologies such as Azure IoT Suite, Edge, Azure PaaS/IaaS. He has also worked with Azure Data Services like Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL DW, SQL Server, Azure AI, Azure ML, ML Server, Cognitive Services, and Azure Databricks. Salil holds a Master of Science in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Computer Applications from Panjab University. He has also attended Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. Salil's tech stack includes Azure, AI, Senior Software Engineer, SQL, DevOps, Big Data, Microservices, ML, Databricks, and Mobile. With his vast experience in the industry, Salil is a valuable asset to any team.