Yathaartha Srivastava

Completed a software engineering internship with the Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (F&O) team at Microsoft, Hyderabad, contributing to backend services and infrastructure for a large-scale enterprise ERP platform. Worked extensively with X++ to build and extend service-layer components, collaborated on CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, and contributed to metadata infrastructure supporting AI agent integrations within the platform.

• Developed and maintained backend APIs in X++ for core service-layer components within the Dynamics 365 F&O enterprise ERP system.
• Designed and implemented metadata infrastructure to support AI agent integrations, enabling more structured and discoverable interactions with platform services.
• Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines on Azure DevOps to streamline build, test, and deployment workflows for service-layer changes.
• Collaborated with cross-functional engineering teams to debug, test, and deploy backend features within a production-grade enterprise codebase.
• Gained hands-on exposure to large-scale enterprise software development practices, including code review processes, service architecture design, and release management at Microsoft's scale.

Conducted a comprehensive research internship at the Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), DRDO, focusing on the critical integration of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) within emerging 6G wireless communication networks. Analyzed the limitations of traditional security models against advanced 6G threats and explored ZTA's principles, architectures (including NIST 800-207 and Google BeyondCorp), and migration strategies to ensure robust, future-ready cybersecurity.

• Researched and analyzed the imperative shift from perimeter-based security to Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)
• Explored advanced cybersecurity trends relevant to 6G, including blockchain for identity management, AI-based trust models, and federated learning, demonstrating their synergy with ZTA.
• Explored topics including network segmentation, identity-aware access control, cloud architecture, distributed learning and edge computing within ZTA.
• Gained hands-on exposure to national defense research workflows.