Amrit Ayyar

About Amrit Ayyar

Passionate software engineer that loves to deal with scale and concerned largely about the impact it is creating. I have been working with Microsoft Azure for the last year in the United States. Prior to that, from India, for the last 2.5 years been working on Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Services involving Messaging and Presence stack. Before that, 3 years I have been working with a core Engineering team at Microsoft for Office Android apps. Love to dive deep into technical problems and fix the problem at the root cause. I have also been part of the founding team of a startup which went to Silicon Valley to pitch on merit and numbers. Quick learner with a wide exposure to technologies and development with shared code across platforms. Aspiring to work in the backend of industry wide popular product teams and contribute to their impact.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Azure Logs, Metrics Export and Autoscale

   Microsoft

   Mar 2023 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Built Metrics Export V2 service from scratch at production scale. Exports 21M metrics/hour,generated billed revenue of $0.5M, hardened for Public Preview & GA readiness (billing, monitor-ing, compliance, secure boot, multi‑region rollout).• Designed shipped Capacity‑Aware Autoscale, increasing Microsoft M365 savings from $20K →$209K/month (10×); Roadmap to 1M cores.• Led MonRP CSES → VMSS migration across 80 regions (Public + National Clouds), deprecatinglegacy infra, enabling Managed SDP, solving SSL/IIS + token expiry issues, and stabilizing all cloudswith zero regressions.• Architected and delivered TME one‑box environments for Logs Export Service, including Data-Generation cluster, MSI‑first auth, logging, isolated queues, and remote debugging. 30× DevEximprovement (2.5h → 5m build/deploy), transforming team productivity and enablingfast iteration.• Mentorship: Daily technical coaching for 2 SDE2s and 2 SDE1s for improvements in designquality, execution speed, independent thinking, and communication.• Leadership: Acted as interim team manager for Autoscale/MonRP: ran scrums, drove incidents,coordinated service rollouts, onboarded engineers.• Optimize and maintain Logs Export service catering to a high scale of exporting 2.5 PetaBytes/half an hour.• Inner‑sourced into the control plane team for 6 months, to unblock and make the MetricsExport V2 service a success for public preview: 14+ PRs, selective rollout flows, resolvingcomplex preview blockers.• Coordinated multi‑team (across 4 teams control plane, metrics team, data plane and streamingteam) rollouts across 13 regions.• Deep cross‑team alignment with AMCS, MDM, Metrics RP, GIG, PMs, and customer engineer-ing orgs. • Delivered OpenAI PT1M destination throttling fix for Logs service; reduced outagesand ensured high‑scale export reliability.• Implemented ECS Dynamic Configuration (org‑first), enabling safe, rapid mitigations, improvedDRI health, and resilient fallbacks.

Education

• Manipal Institute of Technology

  Bachelor in Technology (B.Tech), Information Techology

  2012 — 2016

Skills

• Java
• C++
• C
• Javascript
• Css3
• Html 5
• Cuda
• Jquery
• Php
• Mysql
• Photoshop
• Css
• Mobile Applications
• Web Design
• Algorithms
• Web Development
• Programming
• Html5
• Adobe Photoshop
• Sql
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Python