Aakash Saini

About Aakash Saini

I’m an impact driven software engineer with 6.8+ years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems across cloud and edge environments. Currently at Microsoft’s Azure Edge & Platform team, I design and deliver high-impact solutions that improve scalability, strengthen security, and enhance customer experience.My work spans implementing industry-standard protocols like FDO for zero-touch provisioning, building event-driven architectures serving global enterprise customers, and leading security modernization initiatives to harden mission-critical services. I have a track record of delivering urgent, revenue-impacting features on time, influencing cross-team roadmaps, and representing engineering in strategic customer discussions.Passionate about solving complex distributed systems challenges, I thrive at the intersection of system design, scalability, and developer experience. Outside of work, I actively contribute to open-source projects, code review Azure REST API specifications, and mentor peers in technical design and coding best practices.Specialties: Distributed Systems, Cloud & Edge Platforms, Event-Driven Architecture, Security Modernization, System Design, Microservices, BCDR, Observability, Java, C#, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS

Experience

1. Software Engineer Ii

   Microsoft

   Dec 2022 — Present

   As a L62 Lead, Implemented FDO (FIDO Device Onboard) protocol for secure, zero-touch provisioning of edge devices, reducing deployment time by 95% and saving hundreds of engineering hours annually- Designed External Validation framework in Azure Arc workload orchestration for Kubernetes lifecycle, enabling pluggable, customer-authored validations and reducing config-related issues by 40% during early adoption- Led security modernization, migrating services from key/cert-based authentication to Managed Identities and implementing network isolation, reducing attack surface and eliminating credential rotation overhead- Led the migration of MDM metrics from Ifx to OpenTelemetry. This initiative improved performance, security, and alignment with the latest industry observability standards. Designed a future-ready, extensible low-level architecture to support logging of new instrument types without needing redesign- Mentored fresh graduate and junior engineers, accelerating their technical ramp-up, improving code quality, design, communication, and collaboration.

Education

• Mount Carmel School, Chandigarh

  High School

• Chitkara University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

Skills

• Javascript
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Python
• Bootstrap
• Html5
• Machine Learning
• Scikit-Learn
• Functional Programming
• Git
• Sql
• Jquery
• Git Kraken
• C++
• Vim
• C
• Haskell
• Github