About

Shinoj Zacharias is a Principal SWE Lead at Microsoft with over 20 years of software development experience. He has led the development of multiple products in various domains, including 1.0 version products. Shinoj has a proven track record of leading teams to implement and deliver new products and product features on time with high quality. Shinoj has hands-on experience in architecting and leading the development of Mobile App Development Platforms, quality assurance products in the mobile domain, and designing DevOps solutions for Mobile App Development, Test, and Releases. He is proficient in Cloud, Cognitive, and Server-less technologies, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Java, C#, RDF, OSGI REST, EMF, and code generation technologies like JET. He is also strong in server-side programming using servlets and has knowledge of front-end technologies like JavaScript and HTML. Shinoj has extensive interaction with customers, demoing product capabilities, showcasing product roadmaps and new features, resolving customer issues, and understanding new requirements from customers. He has a passion for evangelizing products by speaking and showcasing them in internal and external conferences and contributing to publications. Shinoj has received IBM's second-highest technical award (OTAA), IBM Invention Achievement Award-Plateau 1, 2, 3 & 4, and a bunch of Bravo and Excellence awards. He has 15 patents to his credit. Shinoj's past companies include IBM, where he worked as an IBM Master Inventor, Sr. Architect for IBM Mobile Foundation, and Architect/Squad Lead for IBM MobileFirst Platform. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Bangalore University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Mahatma Gandhi University. Shinoj's relevant experience is 22.71 years, and he is a software engineer with expertise in Mobile, test, Senior Software Engineer, Java, QA, Javascript, DevOps, Integration, Frontend, and Backend.