Vikram Sharma Email & Phone Number

Redmond

- Leading and managing a team of 12+ Engineers to develop best in class cloud based secure solutions using robust coding practices and latest technologies.- Designed & lead the team to develop innovative solutions like Verified Identity (Verified ID) to prevent impersonation related fraud & protect Microsoft businesses. - Designed & lead the effort to develop AI/ML solutions to classify organizations as academic institutions & verify individuals as students. This allows them to buy Microsoft’s products at discounted prices.- Leading the effort across multiple teams to bring in latest technologies to protect our services against different kind of attacks.

Redmond, Washington, United States

- Lead a team of 6 Engineers to develop & maintain intelligent solutions to continuously vet the academic organizations and their domains to prevent fraud. This saves around 10k+ hours of manual reviews per year and around ~$20+ million per year.- Lead the effort of migrating the existing App Services to Azure Kubernetes Services. Thus, saving costs, making it more secure and protected using Azure Front Door.- Designed & developed innovative anomaly detection for individuals who try to game the system.

Redmond, Wa

Academic Verification Engine (AVE), is a service which verifies whether a User is student through various verifications methods.- Designed, developed & automated School import process from various federations & sources using Azure Worker Role Role which reduced the manual effort & tracking to almost zero, increased the efficiency and reduced the ready-to-production time.- Designed & developed REST API for Office 365 to provide discounted products to Home School Users by integrating with HSLDA.org.- Developed custom RUNNERS through Azure Web jobs to track the availability & response validity of APIs, automatically triggering mails for any & every failures.- Thoroughly Planned, Documented & Developed Performance suite using Visual Studio Online to run performance testing of all the API end points simulating the hits from different geographical locations.- Migrated Cloud services to App Services & Web apps with Continuous Integration/Delivery.- Prepared & published AVE on-boarding & self-serve API documentation which helps new Partners easily on-board and integrate with the APIs

Redmond, Wa

Partner Incentives (PI) is a platform used by Microsoft to pay incentives to its Partners for selling & marketing Microsoft products.- Developed & efficiently automated the cumbersome process of Partner Onboarding with customized rules for different Incentive Programs which otherwise was mistake prone & time-consuming process.

Redmond

HRStaffing - HR Staffing application is one place to help Microsoft Recruiters to search for potential candidates for hiring.- Developed simple yet effective web application for HR Dept. which fetches & displays profiles of job seeking candidates by integrating with LinkedIn, Dice.com & other talent searching online portals.

Redmond, Wa

Client - Microsoft, Corp., USA Channel Incentive Program (CHIP) is application/medium which helps Microsoft give incentives to partners who sells/market Microsoft Products.- Developed & scheduled jobs to pull the billion sales records from one stop MS Sales DB and perform the incentive calculations on each one of them for a given Partner based on the type of Program enrollment(s)- Automated the process for Microsoft Auditors to quickly review, validate & approve the incentive amounts to be disbursed to Partners, decreasing approvals & disbursement time with more accurate amount & proofs. Thus, reducing the support tickets from Partners.- Automated the Partner enrollment process into Incentive Programs by providing options of e-signatures & document uploads instead of the time-consuming process of mailing the documents.

Hyderabad Area, India

Client - Microsoft, Corp., USA Role Guide is a web-based tool used to improve individual and organizational capability by presenting targeted, role-based and technology-based learning, assessment and accreditation guidance to the SMSG (Sales, Marketing and Service Group) field in one central location.- Developed & simplified the process of creating a learning roadmap for Microsoft Sales & Marketing people and provided them with targeted trainings instead of the confusing & complicated view of displaying all the available trainings.

Hyderabad Area, India

Client - Microsoft, Corp., USARules Administration Engine (RAE) enters Performance Review Information for employees in the organization, including ratings and rewards. Creates ad-hoc reports or custom views.- Involved in development of RAE- Prepared Technical Specification documents for multiple releases

Hyderabad Area, India

Client - Microsoft, Corp., USAImmigration, this windows application tracks activity on visa applications for non-US citizens who are employed or are considering employment with Microsoft, Corp. in the United States.- Developed offline chat/questionnaire module to put queries to Attorneys and get them clarified