Aritra Basu

About Aritra Basu

16 years’ experience in Software design and development.• Bootstrapping Model As A Service charter in AI Platform team in IDC.• Owner of multiple Azure Edge Platform backend services, such as Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Edge, StorSimple Data Manager etc.• Seasoned Platform and Product Architect. Experienced in defining product and engineering goals, aligning multiple verticals to solve customer problems.• Architected and delivered fundamental Azure backend Infra, focusing on emerging Azure Technologies, Resiliency and Scale, Hybrid Cloud and Edge Compute scenarios. Management at scale in an unreliable environment has been key charter.• Managing and growing a team of highly capable engineers, vendors, and leading v-teams across the world.• Past work experience in Amazon Detail Page & Platform, High Level Synthesis for Compilers, Embedded System Firmware Development.

Experience

1. Principal Software Eng Mgr

   Microsoft

   Jun 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Microsoft is the leading technology player in AI. AI Platform team brings the AI capabilities to Azure, giving customers the latest of LLM capabilities and Azure SLA, Quality, Security and Governance. Models As A Service (MaaS) helps the customers to focus on harnessing the AI capabilities for their business without worrying about the infrastructure, governance, quality, security etc. In this service, customers will be able to use a variety of models, different capabilities to maximize the impact in their business, while using the same software, same infrastructure for any models. MaaS allows customers to pay only for what he is using, and not worry about hosting, GPU cost or any infrastructure. My role in this team is to • Bootstrap a team in IDC to start the MaaS development journey in IDC. • Onboarding key players of LLM world, such as Mistral, Llama, Cohere, etc.in Azure. I’m working on onboarding large language models in Azure, • Defining a future roadmap for Model Onboarding in Azure. With the explosion of number of models and capabilities, bringing them into Azure, hosting them and enabling them to solve customers’ problem is going to be a critical challenge. I’m working across teams to solve this and making Azure the worlds’ best AI infrastructure, where we bring in impact in every life.

Education

• Jadavpur University

  B.E., Electronics and Telecommunication

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Algorithms
• Tcl
• Visual Studio
• Debugging
• Data Structures
• Operating Systems
• Linux
• User Interface Design
• C++
• Software Development
• Shell Scripting
• Clearcase
• Verilog
• Graph Theory
• Perl
• C
• Programming