Pratik Tiwari

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.

[email protected]
Bangalore, India

Experience

Software Engineer 2

Microsoft (Bing, Copilot Search), Bangalore, India

Sept 2025 — Present

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

May 2024 — Aug 2025
  • 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

Aug 2023 — April 2024
  • 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

Jan 2022 — Aug 2023
  • 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

March 2021 — Dec 2021
  • 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 — Present

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

CGPA 8.75 • Lovely Professional University

Aug 2018 — March 2022

SELECTED 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).