About
I am Usama Ansari, a Senior Software Engineer with 12.3+ years of experience designing and delivering distributed systems on Microsoft Azure.
I focus on AI platform engineering, high-availability APIs, real-time telemetry, and secure cloud-native architecture. This timeline highlights the major milestones in my career.
Career Timeline
- May 2016 - Present
Microsoft - Software Engineer 2
- Architected the Azure Networking AI Agent Platform with MCP support, memory management, multi-model orchestration (GPT-5.2 and GPT-mini), evaluation pipelines, and enterprise security controls.
- Designed the platform on Azure AI Foundry, Azure Container Apps, and Cosmos DB (operational and vector storage), and led decisions on observability, persistence, and secure integration.
- Enabled early adoption with 10+ production agents, 52 active users, 16K-20K API requests per month, and approximately 712 million tokens processed monthly.
- Designed and scaled a multi-region Device Health API platform processing approximately 150 million requests per day with 99.99%-99.999% reliability, supporting health monitoring across more than 3 million Azure nodes.
- Implemented schema-driven dynamic tooling for Net Assist workflows, reducing per-workflow development effort by up to one week and improving team onboarding.
- Served as S360 SPOC, owning security and compliance for AI Agent Platform and Device Health services, including secure configuration, vulnerability remediation, and proactive reviews.
- Acted as the primary architecture SME, driving design reviews and mentoring engineers on scalable, secure, resilient cloud-native systems.
- Nov 2013 - Apr 2016
Capgemini - Software Engineer
- Built enterprise web applications for Abbott and SCA using .NET, SQL Server, and Azure.
- Contributed across requirements analysis, development, testing, and production support.
- Jul 2013
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology