Brian Pokrifka
@brianpokrifka
Senior software engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices, AI, and large-scale distributed systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with 9+ years at Microsoft, designing cloud-native microservices, event-driven streaming platforms, and AI-powered pipelines that serve hundreds of millions of users. I’ve led architecture reviews, mentored engineers, and driven reliability improvements that reduced latency and Sev-1 incidents while improving global data replication and scaling.
My work spans Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, and the Azure Portal, where I built geo-distributed active-active services, multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure, and high-performance transactional APIs. I combine strong backend expertise (C#, .NET, gRPC) with AI/ML integrations and robust DevOps practices to deliver secure, resilient, and highly performant enterprise systems.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed geo-distributed, event-driven microservices for Microsoft Teams on AKS, reducing meeting join latency by 38% and improving cross-region data replication performance by 42% while deploying AI meeting intelligence at scale.
Architected multi-tenant Dynamics 365 SaaS infrastructure with geo-redundancy across 40+ regions and built AI-driven sales forecasting that improved lead conversion prediction accuracy by 32%.
Built control-plane orchestration microservices and asynchronous provisioning pipelines for the Azure Portal, improving portal load performance by 33% and enhancing observability and safe rollout mechanisms.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2010 - 2014
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in software engineering, distributed systems, and AI/ML.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
D3.js
Chart.js
Microsoft Azure
GitHub
Kubernetes
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitHub Actions
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Gmail
Rollout
Node.js
Django
Laravel
.NET Core
Ruby on Rails
Next.js
.NET
ASP.NET Core
Tailwind CSS
Microsoft Teams
Puppeteer
Redis
Terraform
Azure Resource Manager
Azure DevOps
Ember.js
Vue.js
JavaScript
PHP
ASP.NET
Azure Machine Learning
TensorFlow
PyTorch
MLflow
scikit-learn
Streamlit
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Azure Service Bus
FastAPI
Appium
Grafana
Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
Azure Monitor
Datadog
Gemini
GraphQL
Prisma
OData
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Ansible
pytest
OAuth2
Airflow
REST Assured
SQL
Buildkite
Azure Cosmos DB
Espresso
Hugging Face
Microsoft Dynamics 365
LangChain
Playwright
Plane
OpenAI API
Cosmos
LangGraph
Safe
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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