About

Sunil Kata is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, with over 12 years of experience in building scalable backend systems. He has a proven track record of developing successful products in cloud services, RTB, gaming, e-commerce, and e-mail domains. Sunil's expertise lies in meticulous planning and execution of software products for reliable and effective delivery. Sunil has worked with some of the top industry leaders, including Microsoft, Amazon, Flipkart, Zynga, Airpush, and Rediff. He started coding at the age of twelve and enjoys solving hard problems. Sunil graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, which is the world's top-ranked research institute. Currently, Sunil is part of the Azure Networking Team at IDC, where he is involved in making health systems for DNS in rescue mode. He has also worked in Azure Networking in Gateway Manager, which enables all communications to Azure from the outside world. Sunil has handled BCDR scenarios and critical key rotation compliance projects in the control path of all hybrid services. Additionally, he has worked in ExpressRoute, a private network offering from Microsoft to connect on-prem data centers to Azure at high speeds. Before joining Microsoft, Sunil worked at Tesco as an SDE (IT-Architect), responsible for forecasting in the Retail Demand Forecasting team. He implemented Spark algorithms that data scientists provided, which is Matrix Factorisation technique. Sunil effectively created a solution that performs 95% faster than the naive implementation. He also worked at Flipkart as a Software Development Engineer II, responsible for Reviews and Ratings at Flipkart.com and the Seller Platform and Customer Catalog viewing experience. Sunil's education history includes a Master's degree in Computer Science from IISc and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU). His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Azure, Research Scientist, Backend, Senior Software Engineer, and Spark. Sunil has 13.88 years of relevant experience.