Shwet Maroo

About Shwet Maroo

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, backend services,and ETL pipelines. Strong expertise in C++ and Python; high-availability system design; concurrency; and cloud-native architectures on Azure. Proven track record of owning mission-critical systems and services serving billions of devices and improving reliability, performance, and scalability.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Microsoft

   Aug 2022 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Projects – Windows 10/11 Licensing, Extended Security Updates (ESU) for Windows 10 and other Operating Systems.•Led end-to-end architecture and development of licensing backend services supporting 100M+ enterprise devices globally across multiple Windows OS versions - a multi-year initiative requiring deep cross-component understanding, reliability engineering, and backward-compatible design.• Developed a highly concurrent, highly available licensing service in the ESU project for secure entitlement validation, reducing licensing failures by 99%.• Designed and implemented other large-scale key-based and keyless licensing and activation mechanisms for ESU, working across system boundaries and debugging complex production issues in security-sensitive code paths.• Mentored 3 junior engineers, reviewed designs and PRs, and raised quality standards through deep code review and architecture guidance.

Education

• New York University

  Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

  2014 — 2015

• Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  2009 — 2013

Skills

• Javascript
• Html
• Microsoft Office
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Sql
• Linux
• Asp.net
• Css
• Databases
• Java
• Python
• Visual Studio
• Eclipse
• C#
• Asp.net Mvc
• Mysql
• C++
• C
• Programming