Neeraja Ganesan

About Neeraja Ganesan

Full-Stack Software Engineer | AI & MCP Systems | Web Platforms | Cloud…

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Feb 2017 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leading multi-engineer team, in development of a Copilot prompt moderation tool using React/ Typescript and FluentUI. Driving rapid delivery in a fast-paced environment to meet tight deadlines. Managing a phased release strategy using flights, with a two-week staged rollout for controlled adoption. Collaborating with teams across the board to ensure data flow security and privacy compliance & overseeing development and delivery and building real-time telemetry dashboards that monitor feature performance and usage- Front-end leadership & design-system expertise: Achieved 25% decrease in page load time by transitioning from server side to client-side rendering of page built with React, TypeScript, Fluent UI, SCSS, and LESS, consuming Figma-based design tokens and documenting components in Storybook for cross-team reuse. Packaged the feature via NPM, enabling rapid adoption across repos. Ensuring WCAG and accessibility compliance and Jest unit testing- Used Service Fabric to develop/ maintain scalable, high-performance website over multiple Azure data centers using ASP.NET Core, to reach over a million customers per month- Managed infrastructure expansion across geographies globally, deploying website to new data centers and scaling instances for reliability and performance. Ensured high availability, serving as an on-call engineer, mitigating incidents, engaging partner teams, and maintaining a 99.9%+ SLA, Automated end-to-end deployment of new Azure data-center regions via ARM/Bicep-driven templates, setting up VM Scale Sets, and integrated data center into CI/CD, configured Akamai GTM + Azure Front Door for global load balancing, drain/restore, and health-based routing- Introduced and led experimentation, A/B testing across multiple teams, implementing data-driven strategies by building PowerBI reporting. Implemented server-side and client-side telemetry, enabling real-time monitoring, performance tracking, and data-driven decision-making.

Education

• University of Southern California

  Master's Degree, Computer Science

  2013 — 2014

• Independent Course Work

  GPU(Parallel) Computing - CUDA platform

  2014

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Ajax
• Android Development
• C
• Html
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Java
• Cloud Development
• Qt
• Php
• C++ Language
• C++
• Cuda
• Javascript
• Mysql
• Python
• Perl
• Sql
• Linux
• Sap Abap
• Css
• C Language
• Shell Scripting