Raja Krishnaswamy
VP Of Engineering at Microsoft
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRaja Krishnaswamy is a veteran engineering leader with a career spanning foundational runtime design to exabyte-scale data platforms, currently serving as VP of Engineering for Microsoft Core AI and GitHub infrastructure. He has built and scaled high-performing teams at Microsoft, Google, and Snowflake, driving mission-critical platforms like BigQuery, Snowflake’s global marketplace, Azure Service Fabric, and the .NET CLR. Raja blends deep distributed-systems and runtime expertise with cloud-native infrastructure experience—spanning storage, scheduling, security, serverless containers, and multi-tenant autoscaling. He helped steer .NET’s open-source and cross-platform transformation and led the engineering behind services that power billions of transactions and events globally. An inventor as well as operator, he holds over 25 patents and a track record of delivering secure, compliant platforms for regulated environments. Based in Palo Alto with an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin, he’s as comfortable shaping API and runtime strategy as he is optimizing large-scale operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology
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Github Skills (5)
corert6
toolchain5
dotnet5
aot4
compiler3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
raja-krishnan/cruise-krish
Nov 2025 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 branch in 1 day
dotnet/corert
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
This repo contains CoreRT, an experimental .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT (ahead of time compilation) scenarios, with the accompanying compiler toolchain.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 1 branch in 1 day
aotcompilercorertdotnettoolchain
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