Ankit Barai
Software Engineer 2 @Microsoft| Ex- Amazon | IIIT
- Role
- Software Engineer 2 (L62) at Microsoft
- Location
- Hyderabad, TG, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ankit Barai
Ankit Barai is a results-driven Software Development Engineer II with 5 years of experience designing, building and operating Tier-1, low-latency, highly available (99.99%) and Scalable distributed microservices at Amazon. Proven expertise in building highly scalable AWS ECS Fargateservices, owning systems end-to-end from BRD, design, implementation to production rollout and peak operations. Strong track record of ~70% latency reduction for Tier1 Flows, TPS peak scaling, zero-downtime client migrations, and sustained operational excellence acrosscritical Tier-1 platforms through deep performance tuning, GC optimization, and scalable microservices architecture.Within Amazon’s ShipTech/Transportation Technologies ecosystem, Ankit has driven PAS service consolidation and large-scale client migrations, led the JDK 17 migration, executed CDK upgrades, and delivered the CPC–TPE integration using innovative shadow testing strategies. Earlier as an SDE I, he spearheaded the LAA Self-Serve platform and Travis-based version authority migration, reducing agreement onboarding turnaround time from weeks to minutes, while designing scalable validation frameworks and CMS-driven event-based architectures.Before Amazon, Ankit worked as a Data Scientist at Jio-AICoE, contributing to AI/ML platforms including a synthetic dataset generation tool for deep learning models. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Nagpur and was a Top-25 finalist in the Samhar COVID-19 Hackathon (out of 464 teams). Known for strong ownership, deep technical problem-solving, and mentorship, Ankit enjoys building production-grade distributed systems and is always open to meaningful collaborations in backend engineering, cloud-native systems, and platform scalability.
Experience
Software Engineer 2 (L62)
Feb 2026 — Present · Bengaluru, IN
Education
Kendriya Vidyalaya CRPF Nagpur
Secondary school, CBSE
2014 — 2015
Indian Institute of Information Technology Nagpur
Bachelor of Technology, Computer science engineering
2017
Kendriya Vidyalaya CRPF Nagpur
Senior Secondary, CBSE, Mathematics and Computer Science
2016 — 2017
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