Dhwani Shah

About Dhwani Shah

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on AKS Arc and Arc VM. Experience building Kubernetes CRDs, operators, and APIs for managing clusters and virtual machines across hybrid cloud environments. Focused on cloud-native infrastructure, reliability, and cross-service integrations with Azure identity and networking.https://github.com/djshah19

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Mar 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Architected and led the transformation of a fragile 20-step manual operational workflow into a resilient, scalable platform, eliminating systemic failure modes and reducing operational incidents to near zero across customer environments.• Defined and drove the architectural strategy for safely disabling Windows node pool support in AKS Arc, introducing feature gates and control-plane guardrails that reduced compute, bandwidth, and storage overhead while ensuring backward compatibility across upgrade workflows.• Drove the end‑to‑end retirement of Windows Server 2019 in AKS Arc by enforcing checks across create, update, and upgrade workflows• Designed and Automated bug triage using Azure Hawkeye by correlating telemetry failures to surface likely root causes, significantly reducing manual triage effort and improving bug response efficiency

Education

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Telecommunication

  2011 — 2014

• Northeastern University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering

  2017 — 2019