Vijay Prabhakar

Learner — Coder — Builder — AI Enthusiast

Senior Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce · Ex-Microsoft

I'm a software engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems across multiple domains. I'm language agnostic and have designed and developed features across the full stack using C++, C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, and SQL. I've led end-to-end feature development—from design and implementation to testing and on-call support—and ventured into AI in recent years.

GitHub · LinkedIn

Experience

Senior Member of Technical Staff Salesforce Apr 2026 — Present

Senior Software Engineer Ivanti Jul 2024 — Apr 2026

Migrated several Windows x64 UWM tools (Application Control, Environment Manager, Management Centre, UWM Suite Installer) to support ARM64.
Optimized UWM Application Control ITSM calls under Policy Change Request, reducing overall traffic by ~93%.
Built features and fixed pending bugs on UWM. Mentored new-joinees.

Software Engineer Microsoft Mar 2022 — Jul 2024

Built UI & AzureDevOps pipeline task for JUnit and Pytest execution in ADO.
Added support for latest MSTest adapters into vstest runner in ADO — impacting 300+ unique customers with 2L+ test runs in 30 days.
Built service health feature with background jobs & monitoring to catch IntegerOverflow issues before they caused customer downtime.
Built read replica feature for read workflows, reducing load on primary DB by 30%.
Setup 4 new TCM service units globally; automated ~80% of the process with PowerShell & ADO pipelines.

Software Engineer 2 Teradata Mar 2021 — Feb 2022

Built Histogram, XGBoost, SimpleImpute, VectorDistance in-db SQL Machine Learning functions in Teradata Vantage.

System Engineer Tata Consultancy Services Jul 2019 — Mar 2021

Designed & built CLI client-server tool in C Socket programming using SCTP protocol for Linux.
Built a CLI Python tool migrating all functionalities of a Desktop GUI counterpart to Linux.
Built ML POCs (face recognition, player recognition, fire detection) using Python & TensorFlow.

Projects

Things I build and maintain in the open.

UNO Classic — Retro Edition

A real-time multiplayer UNO card game with retro pixel-art graphics, built with TypeScript, Node.js, Socket.IO, and HTML5 Canvas. Supports 2–10 players with full UNO rules, room system, and scoring.

TypeScript code website

Wojo Music — Sync Music Player

A real-time synchronized music player with a retro cassette player aesthetic. Create rooms, invite friends, upload audio files or add Google Drive links, and listen together in perfect sync. Features live chat, role-based access (Admin/Moderator/Listener), and smart pre-fetching.

React code website

HalalSearch — Find Halal Food Nearby

A map-based app that shows nearby restaurants from OpenStreetMap, flags places tagged halal/vegetarian/vegan, and runs an AI-assisted halal check grounded in Google Search with cited sources — on demand or in the background. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.