Pratik Tiwari
Software Engineer
Software Engineer experienced in Search, instrumentation, analytics, and resilient systems. Worked on Bing & Copilot Search (metrics, ad-blocker defense, bot detection, SERP responsiveness) and previously SRE at VMware (incident response, devops, observability), with earlier full-stack experience.
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Bangalore, India
Experience
Software Engineer 2
Microsoft (Bing, Copilot Search), Bangalore, India
ASP.NET MVC, Typescript, Javascript, Web Components, Fast Design
- Leading analytics & instrumentation efforts for Copilot Search to improve engagement measurement (average dwell time, turn level dwell time, interaction, etc), collaborating with the Metrics team.
- Driving Bing SERP Magazine responsiveness, (resolved 250+ UX issues), and continuing refinements across surfaces and answers.
- Leading Bing's Ad-blocker defense and an internal analytics framework (similar to Microsoft Clarity) used to define major Bing success metrics across verticals & surfaces.
- Built an Ad-Blocker defense monitoring tool that provides real-time alerts and AI-assisted code fix recommendations to accelerate filter list remediations, usable across different products like Bing SERP, Office, MSN, etc.
Software Engineer
Microsoft (Bing), Bangalore, India
- Shipped Bing Ad-block defense & restoration mechanism recovering ~21% Ad clicks, improving Billable Revenue/MUU (~+2%) and Ads PCR (+0.13%), and 2x restoration throughput, restoration stable from the time of ship to present (~1 year).
- Enhanced Ads instrumentation leading to improved downstream model accuracy.
- Shipped breadcrumb experience & header improvements for Bing SERP across regions, improving navigation & UX consistency with gains in DAU retention (+0.07%) and reduced HTML chunk size (~0.2%).
Site Reliability Engineer (MTS 2)
VMware, Bangalore, India
- Built Service Locator, a web app to monitor, failover, and recover VMware SaaS services across datacenters, improving reliability during major incidents.
- Enabled automated & manual failover for 20+ microservices across DCs, reducing switchover time from minutes to seconds during outages.
- Developed dashboard for active DC state, health checks, and timeline history, improving situational awareness during ICM events.
- Integrated OAuth2.0 with VMware Workspace One (VIDM) to secure DC failover operations.
- Automated alert and ticket assignment using Python, REST, vRealize Orchestrator with ML-based resolution/ownership predictions, reducing manual triage effort by ~80% during shifts.
- Handled SRE/ICM responsibilities, including incident response, triaging service disruptions, coordinating with engineering teams, and ensuring timely mitigation and recovery.
Member of Technical Staff
VMware, Bangalore, India
- Led the frontend efforts to revamp LiveSite Communications, VMware's incident & maintenance notification platform for SaaS customers, improving communication reliability during outages.
- Cut Mean Time to Notify (MTTN) by ~80% through workflow automation and reusable components for onboarding new services.
- Worked on SecureShell, an API framework for remote SSH execution to auto-heal infra/app issues, reducing manual intervention and lowering active alerts by ~70%.
- Automated deployments via GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes across VMware’s internal cloud.
Associate Software Engineer - Intern
MAQ Software, Mumbai, India
- Built features for MSX Insights, Microsoft's cloud BI platform, enabling data exploration, commenting, and PowerPoint exports for sales leadership.
- Implemented multi-level ACLs (geo/role/team) to secure data access; ensured compliance with WCAG accessibility guidelines.
- Led a 4-person team to build a Power Platform solution for Microsoft's responsible AI programs.
- Worked on a browser extension to measure Power BI report performance and PLT using web vitals (LCP, DOMContentLoaded, etc).
- Contributed to ETL workflows using Databricks + SQL Server for a data science use case.
Skills
Languages
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonCSQLHTML/CSS
Frontend
Next.jsReactReduxAngularASP.NET MVCJest - Unit testing
Backend
Node.js (Express)DjangoREST APIs
Data/Messaging
MySQLRedisRabbitMQ
DevOps/SRE
DockerKubernetesHelmGitLab CI/CDPrometheusGrafanaLinux administrationAzureDigitalOcean CloudCloudflare CDN
Education
Post Graduate Diploma - Artificial Intelligence
Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur
Jan 2026 — PresentBachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering
CGPA 8.75 • Lovely Professional University
Aug 2018 — March 2022SELECTED PROJECTS
- Vuln Tower: Security tool for CVE monitoring with multi-channel alerting (Discord/Email/Telegram) and LLM-based CVE enrichment; 350+ clones in 14 days of release.
- HireTip.co: AI-driven resume and career tooling platform (resume analysis, content generation, CV building, and ATS optimization).