About

Varshini Rajagopal is a skilled Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience in the tech industry. She is currently working at Microsoft as a Software Engineer 2, specializing in front-end engineering in Microsoft Enterprise Search. Her work involves building scalable UX components across host apps like Sharepoint and Bing, using the best of Search Technology with Enterprise data. Prior to this, Varshini was a UI developer responsible for Bing Covid-19 tracker, which was consumed by a million users per day. She built React components over real-time Covid statistics, consuming API calls for feeds, with optimized network performance and handling localization pipeline for global markets. She was part of the Bing team that demonstrated agile development with features shipped weekly. She also built a web scraper responsible for collecting and ingesting daily worldwide vaccine progress with continuous refresh, designed with scalability and accuracy to reflect newly published data sources in quick turnaround time. Varshini maintained a dashboard to mine data from telemetry and user interactions on the tracker, which helped map user engagement and create impactful features based on Covid's shifting trends. She facilitated collaboration between stakeholders and delivered speedy prototypes for enabling time-effective ideation to development cycle. Varshini has experience leaning on customer feedback with focus on web accessibility to deliver an inclusive and trusted experience. She is proficient in ReactJS, Redux, Typescript, jQuery, and Node.js. She has also interned with the Bing team at Microsoft India Development Centre, receiving a pre-placement offer (PPO) to join Microsoft upon completing her Master's degree. Varshini holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Mathematics (Honors) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from PSG College of Technology. She also completed a Master of Computer Applications - MCA in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Varshini's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Search, Frontend, UI, Web, Javascript, Typescript, Redux, NodeJS, and ReactJS. She is a tech enthusiast with a relevant experience of 5.87 years.