Ephrem Tolla

About Ephrem Tolla

10+ years of software development experience as a highly skilled and motivated senior…

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Nov 2016 — Present

   Studio Alpha, Microsoft - I led a team responsible to create collaboration tool, capture and transcribe audio communications and build Microsoft teams apps to host the game play UI. Studio alpha is a serious gaming platform built using unreal engine and azure with a custom physics engine. Objective of studio alpha is to simulate the real world and create a digital twin. Simulations would include war games, search and rescue, space and many missions’ critical scenarios. Azure CAT, Microsoft - I built a platform for end-to-end validation and reporting of Azure cloud service reliability and maintain dashboards to show status of the services in every region and investigate issues and generate feedbacks. E2E team in Azure CAT was a core azure team which provided tooling and intelligence to detect, report and triage the issues 100+ services experienced in 55+ data centers, provide the tooling around triaging the issues, build machine leaning models to correlate platform issues with platform level failures (sky walker). Strategic Missions and Technologies (Mission Engineering) SMT-ME, Microsoft - I designed and built tools to support Mission Developers’ unique requirements and improve their development efficiency across constrained environments, built an ABAC enforcement solution that can overlay on top of existing solutions and incorporated Microsoft Search to a platform for intelligence analysts to collaborate and share data leveraging Microsoft products. The Strategic Missions and Technologies (SMT) team is a combination of Azure Quantum, Microsoft U.S. Federal, and Azure Space & Mission Engineering for Azure. The goal of the SMT team is to boost development of important emerging businesses at Microsoft and will be tasked with the ongoing growth of key businesses.

Education

• Maharishi International University

  MSC, Computer Science

  2008 — 2010

• Microlink Information Technology College

  Associate’s Degree, Software Engineering

• Microlink Information Technology College

  Engineer’s Degree, Software Engineering

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Asp.net
• Software Quality Assurance
• C#
• Javascript
• Visual Studio
• Jquery
• Software Project Management
• Sql
• Windows Azure
• Web Services
• .net Framework
• Sdlc
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Development
• .net
• Distributed Systems
• Asp.net Mvc
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Wcf
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Test Automation
• Software Design
• Source Depot