Niketan Rane

Software Engineer & Builder

About Me

Hi, I'm Niketan.

I'm a software engineer at Microsoft, building AI-powered developer productivity tools that help developers ship their products and features faster.
If you want to talk Developer Experience, AI for developer productivity or cricket, I'm always up for a good chat.

My resume is publicly available here.

I'm very comfortable with Python, Django, Azure (Cosmos DB, OpenAI, Active Directory), OAuth 2.0, and building AI-powered automation using LLMs and RAG. I've also written production C# at Microsoft, but it's not my comfort zone (yet).

I spend most of my time writing C#, Python, and Kusto and tinkering with AI, building Developer Agents. One of the developer agent I worked on was recently featured in Microsoft Build 2025.

You'll often find me tinkering with event-driven architectures, Azure pipelines, or machine learning recommendation models.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer — Microsoft

Sep 2025 – Present
  • Architected Microsoft Developer Agent in Teams to automate PR workflows using Azure OpenAI.
  • Delivered proactive notifications and intelligent reviews; featured at Microsoft Build 2025.

Software Engineer II — Microsoft

Apr 2023 – Aug 2025
  • Built PR velocity ecosystem for 2k+ devs and 250+ reviewer groups; event-driven C# + Cosmos DB.
  • Designed ML-based reviewer assignment with geo load balancing; cut turnaround 12%.
  • Implemented Teams bot for contextual alerts: builds, merge-ready, releases, SLA breaches.

Software Engineer II — Microsoft

Jul 2021 – Mar 2023
  • Built review + metrics dashboards: SLA breach tracking, percentiles, first response analytics.
  • Created Teams Nudge with @mentions and DRAFT-first workflow for review-ready submissions.
  • Redesigned monitoring for MS Teams: aggregate metrics + custom alerts; cut false alarms 70%.

Senior Software Engineer — Qualcomm

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021
  • Designed Bluetooth address management platform to prevent interference; earned Qualstar.

Software Engineer — Qualcomm

Dec 2018 – Nov 2020
  • Optimized test runs via smart grouping + clustering; cut redundant runtime ~34%.
  • Scaled 3G log parser; improved regression detection accuracy from 63% to 85%.

Associate Software Engineer — Qualcomm

Jul 2017 – Nov 2018
  • Built automated 3G log parser for regression identification; reduced manual analysis 34%.

Education

Bachelor of Technology
2013 - 2017
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

Electronics and Communication Engineering (CGPA: 8.92/10.0)