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I'm Kaushik — Software Engineer at Microsoft Fabric, building distributed systems, cloud-native apps, and production ML pipelines.

Kaushik Karanam

About

From Code to Cloud: Engineering Scalable Solutions.

I'm a Software Engineer at Microsoft Fabric, building production distributed systems across multi-region Azure deployments. With 2+ years of industry experience and an M.S. in Information Systems from Northeastern University, my work spans high-throughput backend services, cloud-native architecture, and machine learning pipelines. I bring hands-on expertise in Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, React, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) — delivering scalable systems from design to production.

2+ yrs Industry Experience
10+ Projects
MS Northeastern University

Experience

Professional Journey

Software Engineer Microsoft

Oct 2025 – Present · Redmond, WA
  • Built an AI-powered Copilot agent automating incident troubleshooting for on-call engineers across Microsoft Fabric, using prompt engineering and agentic workflows to surface root-cause hypotheses from operational telemetry and runbooks.
  • Owned CI/CD reliability KPIs across Fabric teams, closing 100+ action items by diagnosing flaky tests and hardening Azure DevOps pipelines with observability instrumentation, stabilizing multi-team release processes.
  • Eliminated configuration drift across 20+ Azure regions by validating multi-region deployment configurations for OneLake and Snowflake workloads, ensuring fault-tolerant, production-ready rollouts.
  • Delivered Snowflake–Fabric GA readiness by architecting cross-service integration flows with upstream/downstream dependency management, authoring design documentation, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams.
PythonAzureOneLake Distributed SystemsCI/CD Azure DevOpsGitHub ActionsLLM/GenAI

Software Development Engineer Community Dreams Foundation

Jul 2025 – Sep 2025 · Boston, MA
  • Designed and shipped RESTful APIs with Node.js/Express and JWT authentication, implementing role-based access control to support reliable program and volunteer management workflows.
  • Built responsive React dashboards and admin views with real-time data display, reducing manual reporting effort by 60% for a platform serving 500+ customers.
Node.jsExpressMongoDB ReactJWTREST APIs

Graduate Research Assistant Northeastern University

Sep 2023 – May 2025 · Boston, MA
  • Collaborated with faculty and research peers on applied ML projects spanning deep learning, cloud data pipelines, and time-series forecasting — translating research problems into working model implementations.
  • Coursework in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, and Data Structures & Algorithms, applying concepts directly to academic and research projects.
PythonMLTensorFlowPyTorch AWSGCPAzureSQL

Software Development Engineer Earthlink

Oct 2021 – Jun 2023 · Hyderabad, India
  • Built and maintained backend microservices handling 100K+ daily customer requests, designing REST API contracts and service-to-service communication patterns that sustained peak traffic without degradation.
  • Cut API response times 40% for 100K+ customers by implementing caching and optimized database indexing, directly improving system throughput and customer experience.
  • Reduced manual regression effort 70% by building automated test frameworks across 4 production applications, integrated into CI/CD pipelines and accelerating release velocity.
  • Achieved 85%+ code coverage with TDD practices, enabling weekly production releases with zero critical rollbacks across the full SDLC in Agile/Scrum sprints.
JavaSpring BootNode.jsExpress REST APIsRedisMySQL CI/CDJUnitSelenium

SKILLS

Skills

Full-Stack • Cloud • ML

Programming Languages

  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • C++
  • Bash

Web Technologies

  • Spring Boot
  • JPA/Hibernate
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • FastAPI
  • React
  • Next.js
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • Microservices
  • HTML
  • CSS

Database & Data Engineering

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Airflow
  • PySpark
  • Elasticsearch
  • Snowflake

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Packer
  • CI/CD
  • Git
  • Linux/Unix
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins

Testing & QA

  • JUnit
  • Jest
  • Playwright
  • Selenium
  • Bruno
  • Postman
  • TDD
  • Agile/Scrum

Machine Learning

  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • Keras
  • scikit-learn
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • Neural Networks

Generative AI

  • NLP
  • OpenAI API
  • RAG
  • Vector DBs
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Agentic Workflows
  • Hugging Face
  • Transformers

Projects

Featured Work

GCP Cloud-Native Application

Architected a cloud-native app with auto-scaling compute, HTTPS load balancing, and a decoupled email verification pipeline via Pub/Sub + Cloud Functions. Provisioned 15+ services via Terraform + Packer CI/CD with CMEK encryption for zero-downtime deployments.

GCPSpring BootTerraformPackerPub/SubCI/CDDockerCloud Security

Order Management System

Architected a multi-enterprise order platform modeling hierarchical domain entities with OOP design patterns. REST APIs achieved 60% higher transaction throughput and 40% faster response times.

JavaSpring BootMicroservicesMySQLREST APIsRBAC

DocBook — Doctor Booking Platform

Full-stack MERN application with TypeScript implementing RESTful APIs, role-based JWT authentication, and a responsive React frontend for real-time doctor appointment scheduling and management.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsExpressMongoDBJWTReduxCloudinary

Precipitation Forecasting

Built a hybrid LSTM + ConvLSTM2D model achieving 71% F1-score for heavy-rain prediction, improving accuracy by 11% over baseline through iterative experimentation and model tuning.

PythonTensorFlowKerasLSTMConvLSTM2DTime-series

Motor Vehicle BI Analytics

Built an end-to-end ETL pipeline and interactive dashboards to analyze multi-city motor vehicle accident datasets, surfacing patterns across demographics, geography, and time.

PythonETLSQLTalendAlteryxPower BITableau

See more of my work on GitHub.

GitHub

Contact

Let's build something great.

Open to full-time roles. Feel free to reach out!