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Niketan Rane

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Engg @Microsoft

11 followers

Joined 23 Nov 2024

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Experience

7 years, 9 months

Microsoft

HIRING

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2025 - Present (3 m) • bengaluru, india • full-time

● Architected Microsoft Developer Agent - conversational AI platform powered by GPT-4/Azure OpenAI integrated into Teams that automates PR lifecycle management through proactive notifications, status tracking, and intelligent code review using historical reviewer feedback patterns.

● Adopted by 3000+ engineers weekly, reducing the average PR completion time by 47% (173 → 88 Hrs).

● Featured in Microsoft Build 2025 for breakthrough developer productivity innovation.

Python

AzureAgentic AIAI Agents

DjangoAzure Devops

Software Engineer - 2

Jul 2021 - Aug 2025 (4 yr, 1 m) • bengaluru, india • full-time

● Built comprehensive PR velocity ecosystem comprising an event-driven C# backend with Cosmos DB, and Semantic Kernel AI assistant serving 2,000+ developers across 250+ global reviewer groups processing 300+ daily PRs.

● Engineered traditional ML-based reviewer assignment with load balancing across geo-distributed teams, scaling hackathon prototype to production and reducing PR turnaround by 12% (198→173 hours).

● Implemented proactive notification system through Teams Bot delivering contextual alerts (build failures, merge-ready, release tracking, author-waiting status) plus batch breach notifications to optimize reviewer engagement. Software Engineer - 2 May 2021 - Mar 2023

● Developed dual-dashboard analytics platform: PR Dashboard for reviewers to track pending first reviews vs. approval-ready PRs, and PR Metrics Dashboard displaying team performance percentiles, breach tracking (36-hour SLA), and first response time analytics.

Python

AzureDeveloper Productivity

Machine Learning

Django

Qualcomm

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2020 - Jun 2021 (6 m) • bengaluru, karnataka, india

Software Engineer

May 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 yr, 7 m) • bengaluru, karnataka, india

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2017 - Nov 2018 (1 yr, 4 m) • hyderabad, telangana, india

Education

Indian Institute Of Information Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering

2013 - 2017

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communication Engineering

2013 - 2017

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV

HSC, Higher Secondary Certificate

2011 - 2012

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV)

HSC, Higher Secondary Certificate

2011 - 2012

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV)

SSC, Secondary School Certificate

2009 - 2010

Volunteering

Coordinator

Prayaas IIITA

Jul 2014 - Aug 2015

It is a volunteer movement initiated by student fraternity of IIIT Allahabad to improve the quality of life of not so privileged kids.