About

Santosh Prasad is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft with a passion for solving problems at scale using technology. With over 6 years of experience in building scalable, distributed, multi-region, high-throughput microservices that can serve high QPS, Santosh is an expert in his field. He completed his B.Tech in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur in 2015. Recently, Santosh has built an Azure PaaS from scratch at Microsoft and led deployments for multiple Fortune-500 customers. He has also owned multiple features/scenarios end-to-end for his team and mentored multiple junior engineers along the way. Santosh's experience includes working as a Senior Software Engineer (Level 63) at Microsoft's Edge Edu Team and as an SDE 2 (Level 62) at Azure Global. Currently, he is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft's Edge Consumer Team. Santosh's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from NIT Durgapur, as well as completing high school at Kendriya Vidyalaya. Santosh's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Azure, SQL, Microservices, Java, Spring, Redis, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot, Flask, Neo4j, MySQL, Integration, UI, Frontend, Backend, Web, and Python. With 7.38 years of relevant experience, Santosh is an accomplished software engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions at scale.