Vikram Krishnan
Principal Software EngineerEmail:vikram.k@microsoft.com
Phone:+1 425 555 0198
Location:Redmond, WA
LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/vikramk-ms
GitHub:github.com/vikramk
Professional Summary
Principal engineer with 14 years building cloud infrastructure at Microsoft Azure. Led design of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) control plane serving 100k+ clusters. Ships multiple large-scale platform projects per role. 6 patents filed. Speaker at KubeCon and Ignite.Experience
Jan 2020Present
Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft Azure · Redmond, WA
• Project: AKS Control Plane — Lead architect for 100k+ clusters ($2B+ ARR)• Project: Multi-Tenant Isolation — Isolation model cutting customer incidents 56%
• Project: Azure Container Apps — Architected serverless platform (Build 2023 launch)
• Project: gRPC Standardization — Cross-team initiative across 40+ Azure services
• Mentored 8 senior engineers; 3 promoted to Principal
• Reduced production incidents 25% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 5 high-impact features used by 45k users
Mar 2016Dec 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Azure · Redmond, WA
• Project: Cluster Autoscaler — Predictive scaling; −34% idle capacity ($40M savings)• Project: Azure Arc Hybrid K8s — Hybrid management plane for on-prem + edge
• Project: Chaos Engineering Framework — Adopted by 12 Azure teams
• Led Dec 2018 AKS outage response; restored service in 47 minutes
• Mentored 3 engineers; 1 promoted within a year
• Reduced production incidents 21% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 4 high-impact features used by 76k users
Jun 2013Feb 2016
Software Engineer II
Amazon Web Services · Seattle, WA
• Project: Amazon EKS Launch — Core contributor to EKS control plane• Project: ECS Task Scheduler — Improved bin-packing efficiency 28%
• Project: Health-Check System — Reduced false-positive restarts 65%
• Led migration of 4 services to modern stack with zero downtime
• Mentored 4 engineers; 2 promoted within a year
• Reduced production incidents 17% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 3 high-impact features used by 17k users
Jul 2011May 2013
Software Engineer
Google · Mountain View, CA
• Project: GCE Instance Management — Live-migration reducing downtime 40%• Project: Early Kubernetes Design — Contributed to pre-open-source design docs
• Owned critical services at Google; improved p95 latency by 28%
• Led migration of 3 services to modern stack with zero downtime
• Mentored 5 engineers; 3 promoted within a year
• Reduced production incidents 48% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 2 high-impact features used by 48k users
Jan 2020Dec 2023
SDE II
Acme Cloud · Toronto, Canada
• Reduced production incidents 15% via better observability and runbooks• Partnered with product to ship 5 high-impact features used by 65k users
• Cut cloud spend 25% through right-sizing and caching
• Wrote design docs and RFCs adopted by 3 teams
• Improved CI cycle time from 35m to 9m
Skills
Go, Rust, C++, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Protobuf, Azure, AWS, Distributed Systems, System Design, Performance Engineering, Chaos Engineering, Technical Leadership, PatentsProjects
AKS Control Plane v2
Go, Kubernetes