Shoumik Chakravarty
Shoumik Chakravarty is an Associate Director of Software Engineering at Verizon, where he leads mobile engineering and distributed systems work across product teams. He writes about API design, developer tooling, and building software at scale, with articles in Towards Data Science and SitePoint. He also contributes to open source projects including NumPy and OpenTelemetry .NET, and he serves as a technical reviewer for Apress, BPB Publications, and Manning Publications.
Detailed Biography
Shoumik Chakravarty is an Associate Director of Software Engineering at Verizon, where he leads mobile engineering and distributed systems work across product teams. He writes about API design, developer tooling, and building software at scale, with articles in Towards Data Science and SitePoint. He also contributes to open source projects including NumPy and OpenTelemetry .NET, and he serves as a technical reviewer for Apress, BPB Publications, and Manning Publications.
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From VS Code to Production: Building and Publishing Azure APIs Without Leaving Your Editor
Last updated: Sunday, October 25, 2026
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2026 - November/December
Shoumik thinks that developers can eliminate costly context switching by using VS Code as a complete environment for Azure API development. He shows how to define an OpenAPI contract first, build and test an Azure Function locally, publish it to Azure API Management directly from the editor, and automate future releases with GitHub Actions and breaking-change checks. Shoumik suggests that keeping specification, implementation, deployment, and validation in one place speeds delivery, reduces errors, and moves APIs from code-complete to production-ready much faster.