Caroline Barker
Caroline Barker

Hi, I'm Caroline.

I'm a distributed systems and cloud infrastructure engineer building reliable, secure container platforms.

Currently, I work on the Azure Container Registry at Microsoft, improving multi-tenant performance and resiliency, leading zero-downtime migrations to Kubernetes, and modernizing identity-based security for services operating at global, high-throughput scale.

Currently

Microsoft Azure, Container Registry Team Aug 2022 – Present

Software Engineer II · Redmond, WA

Prev

MIT Lincoln Laboratory Sept 2021 – Dec 2021

Software Engineer Intern · Boston, MA

Microsoft Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Software Engineer Intern · Redmond, WA

Apple Jan 2021 – May 2021

Software Engineer Intern · Cupertino, CA

Education

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

B.S. Computer Science; Minors in Business, Music, Math

Projects

Interpretable NLP Rule-Extraction Oct 2025 – Present

Research · NYU VIDA Lab

Generating human-readable rules for black-box text classifiers using surrogate decision trees trained on CountVectorizer features with NLP preprocessing (stop-word removal, lemmatization).

Contact

Reach me at CarolineNBarker8@gmail.com or connect on LinkedIn.