Darshan N

About Darshan N

Seasoned Software Engineer with 10+ years of expertise in high-availability, distributed…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Jun 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Led enhancements to migrate databases from monolithic to microservices architecture with high throughput and sub-10-second downtime (90% reduction).• Fixed critical issues such as race conditions, state machine robustness, and VLF/log management to ensure data integrity and reliability.• Performed performance and scalability testing to uncover and resolve bottlenecks, resulting in a 400% increase in migration log rates (consistently maintaining speeds over 50 MBps).• Addressed high-availability and performance bottlenecks, including lock contention and deadlocks, to reduce downtime.• Improved system performance by 200% by optimizing locking mechanisms, minimizing customer impact in critical code paths.• Designed, implemented and tested a high performant liveness detection across peer nodes, enabling rapid failover and faster fault detection, thus eliminating prolonged outages.• Led multi-team efforts using code analysis, telemetry, and dashboarding to identify and fix sources of failover downtime.• Achieved up to 50% reduction in failover downtime for major clients (e.g, Walmart), resulting in improved SLAs and customer experience.

Education

• MES PU College of Arts, Commerce and Science

  PCMC

  2009 — 2011

• B. M. S. College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  2011 — 2015