Jenil Christo

About Jenil Christo

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience at Microsoft, building and scaling enterprise‑grade Data, AI and Backend platforms at the intersection of Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, Machine Learning, and Agentic AI.Currently part of Microsoft Business Operations\' Engineering team, where I help build and operate OAP (Operational Analytics Platform)- a large‑scale data platform powering thousands of data products that support $9B+ annual Microsoft Partner Incentives, Deal Velocity, financial close‑critical reporting, and revenue‑leakage (“revenue left on the table”) analytics.Deep hands‑on experience designing high‑throughput, cost‑efficient data systems using Apache Spark (Scala), Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Databricks, and the Azure data stack (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, ADF). Known for Spark performance tuning, metadata‑driven ETL frameworks, Lakehouse/Data Warehouse architectures, and reusable Scala SDKs that significantly improve platform reliability and engineering velocity.Strong focus on building AI agents, prompt engineering and tools (MCP) for software and data engineering - building autonomous data pipelines, self‑healing data systems, and spec‑driven development workflows for frontend and backend services. Hands‑on with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, LangChain, and LangGraph to accelerate software development processes for the age of AI.Solid foundation in microservices, modular monoliths, and service‑oriented architectures, delivering scalable, resilient backend systems for mission‑critical and close‑critical workloads.Passionate about building resilient, scalable backend services, data pipelines transforming petabytes of data, intelligent data infrastructure that enables scalable analytics, automation, and AI‑driven engineering at enterprise scale.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer, Data and Ai

   Microsoft

   Mar 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• St.Xavier' Catholic College of Engineering

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2012 — 2016

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  Executive PG Programme in Machine Learning & AI