Software Engineer II @ Microsoft · Redmond, WA

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Nishant Routray

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I build cloud platform services that thousands of developers depend on — today on Azure App Configuration and Service Linker at Microsoft. Previously shipped Agentic AI systems at Motorola Solutions and regulatory-reporting microservices handling 1M+ trades/day at Credit Suisse.

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MicrosoftSDE II · Azure

6+ yrsBuilding software

MS CSUniv. of Florida

About me

A quick introduction

Engineer by trade, builder by instinct — happiest when a hard systems problem meets a clean, well-tested solution.

Nishant Routray Redmond, Washington

I'm a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, working on Azure App Configuration and Service Linker — the services that let teams centralize their app settings, feature flags and service-to-service connections without shipping secrets in code.

Before Microsoft I built Agentic AI assistants at Motorola Solutions, using Azure OpenAI with RAG and prompt engineering to turn plain-English questions into SQL over AWS Redshift. Earlier, three years at Credit Suisse gave me deep experience with Java, Spring Boot and Node.js microservices for regulatory reporting at real scale.

I hold an MS in Computer Science from the University of Florida, where I focused on algorithms and operating systems. Outside work, you'll find me solving problems on LeetCode, on a soccer field, in the gym, or planning the next trip.

Years building

Trades / day

Grad GPA

Based in Redmond, WA · USA
Focus Cloud platform services, distributed systems, GenAI
Currently Learning distributed consensus & platform reliability at scale

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What I do

Where I add the most value

Cloud Platform Engineering

Designing and operating multi-tenant Azure services — configuration management, feature flags and secure service-to-service connections that stay fast and available under load.

AzureC#/.NETARMReliability

Full-Stack Development

Backends that move millions of records a day and interfaces people actually enjoy using — Spring Boot, Node.js and React, wired together with Kafka, GraphQL and solid API design.

Spring BootNode.jsReactKafka

Generative & Agentic AI

Shipping LLM systems that do real work: RAG pipelines, few-shot prompt engineering and natural-language to SQL agents that query warehouses and answer in plain English.

Azure OpenAILangChainRAGNL2SQL

Algorithms & Problem Solving

Data structures and algorithms are a genuine hobby, not just interview prep. Regular on LeetCode and a firm believer that the right data structure removes most of the code.

DSAC++System Design

Collaboration & Ownership

Taking features from ambiguous idea to production — writing the design doc, driving reviews, unblocking teammates and staying accountable long after the PR merges.

Design docsMentoringCode review

Beyond the Keyboard

Traveller, soccer player and gym regular. The best debugging ideas usually show up somewhere between the trailhead and the last set.

TravelSoccerFitness

Tech stack

Tools I build with

Filter by category to see what I reach for day to day.

C / C++

Java

Python

JavaScript

C# / .NET

TypeScript

HTML & CSS

Bash

Spring Boot

Node.js

React & Redux

GraphQL

Apache Kafka

API

REST APIs

Azure

AWS

Docker

K8s

Kubernetes

Git & CI/CD

SQL

PostgreSQL

Redshift

LangChain

Azure OpenAI

RAG

RAG Pipelines

The journey

Experience & education

Software Engineer II

Microsoft · Azure App Configuration & Service Linker

Dec 2025 — Present Redmond, WA

Current

Building and operating Azure App Configuration — the managed service teams use to centralize application settings and feature flags across environments.
Developing Service Linker, which automates secure, credential-free connections between Azure compute services and backing resources.
Owning features end to end across design, implementation, code review, deployment and live-site reliability for a multi-tenant cloud platform.

AzureC# / .NETDistributed SystemsCloud PlatformLive Site

Software Developer — Agentic AI

Motorola Solutions · Enterprise Core Tech

May 2024 — Dec 2025 Chicago, IL

Developed Agentic AI assistants with Azure OpenAI that convert natural-language questions into SQL and perform document analysis for the Enterprise Core Tech team.
Employed prompt engineering and few-shot learning with RAG to push query-translation accuracy on real production schemas.
Executed generated queries against AWS Redshift and transformed the results back into plain English answers through the LLM.

Azure OpenAILangChainPythonRAGAWS Redshift

Software Developer

Credit Suisse · Regulatory Reporting

Aug 2020 — Jul 2023 Pune, India

Developed Spring Boot microservices for regulatory reporting, handling 1M+ trades per day to downstream regulators such as DTCC.
Created a React-based UI for real-time trade monitoring with advanced search and filtering across the full trade lifecycle.
Optimized database growth by designing an archival component, saving roughly 100K CHF annually.
Delivered a Node.js, Express and React live web app for process scheduling and control.

JavaSpring BootReactReduxNode.jsSybase

C++ Research Intern

IIT Kharagpur

May 2019 — Jul 2019

Researched a novel architecture for Underwater Multimedia Acoustic Sensor Networks, minimizing latency and energy consumption.
Optimized cross-layer routing algorithms to improve communication efficiency between sea nodes.

C++NetworkingResearch

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Florida · Gainesville, FL

Aug 2023 — May 2025

Specialized in advanced data structures, algorithms, operating systems and distributed computing.
Built projects spanning applied ML, data engineering and systems programming.

GPA 3.85 / 4.00

B.Tech. in Computer Science

VSSUT, Burla · Odisha, India

Jul 2016 — Jul 2020

Grounded in core CS fundamentals — algorithms, networks, databases and software engineering.
Led development-focused coursework and projects with an emphasis on clean coding practices.

GPA 3.62 / 4.00

Selected work

Things I've built

A few side projects and coursework builds — all open source on GitHub.

JARGO

A GenAI tech-jargon translator that sits in your chat space and automatically rewrites dense, acronym-heavy messages into clear, human sentences.

LangChainLLMPython

Data Redaction Pipeline

Automatically detects and conceals personally identifiable information in public-safety incident records so the data stays usable for analysis without exposing individuals.

PythonNLPData Privacy

Gator Library Management

A book-records management system built from scratch on a Red-Black tree for O(log n) lookups and a binary min-heap for fair, priority-based reservation queues.

JavaRed-Black TreeMin Heap

Jumbo — Human-Elephant Strife

A YOLO object-detection model that spots elephants approaching farmland and triggers a deterrent buzzer, reducing dangerous human-wildlife encounters.

YOLOComputer VisionPython

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