Srinivas Dandu
Tech Lead | Full Stack & Platform Engineering | Cloud + AI | Power Platform | Windows Media & Mobile Platforms | 20+ Years in End-to-End Product Development
- Role
- Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Aug 2008 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
MicrosoftPrincipal Software Engineer / Tech Lead – Cloud + AI, Citizen Developer PlatformApr 2018 – Present | Redmond, WALed multiple platform-wide initiatives in Power Platform driving reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.Monitoring Hub: Designed and led the end-to-end monitoring and alerting platform for Power Platform, delivering real-time telemetry, AI-based anomaly detection, and geo-resilient diagnostics across global pipelines—significantly improving incident response speed.Deployment Pipelines: Defined and implemented secure, automated solution delivery pipelines, accelerating deployment velocity and reducing manual overhead for makers.App Actions: Pioneered low-code commanding infrastructure (authoring + runtime) in model-driven apps, enabling new extensibility scenarios across the ecosystem.Delivered consistent offline experiences across Web, Mobile, and Teams; increased PowerApps Data Runtime reliability from 98% → 99.5%; and reduced customer incidents by 30% through proactive telemetry and live-site improvements.Previous: Senior Software Engineer – Windows 10, Media Platform (2014–2018)Led development of Universal Media Transport Controls (MTC) unifying playback experiences across devices.Built MediaPlayerElement, the primary XAML media control for UWP apps, enabling seamless playback for developers and first-party apps like Movies & TV, Photos, and Xbox.Implemented 360° Video Playback APIs and immersive media samples for Mixed Reality devices, enabling developers to create advanced playback scenarios.Earlier: Senior Software Engineer – Windows Phone Developer Platform (2008–2014)Led development of the Media Editing developer experience for Windows Phone 8.1, empowering rich in-app media functionality.Built core WinRT APIs (Media, Networking, Storage) and framework components (Device/User Identification).Led performance optimization and designed the Execution Manager for app lifecycle on Windows Phone.
Education
Osmania University
Master's degree, Computer Science
1996 — 1999
Skills
- Object Oriented Design
- Agile Methodologies
- Distributed Systems
- C#
- .net
- Multithreading
- Software Design
- Software Development
- C++
- Java
- C
- Design Patterns
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