Mountain View, CA, Aug. 30, 2025: Tragedy struck Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus earlier this month when Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old software engineer, was found dead in the early hours of August 20.
According to Mountain View police, Pandey badged into the office on the evening of August 19 and was discovered unresponsive around 2 a.m. the next morning. Authorities confirmed there were no signs of foul play, and the case is not being treated as criminal. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s office said the official cause of death is still under investigation, though initial assessments suggest a possible heart attack.
Pandey, who hailed from Indore, India, came to the United States about a decade ago. He earned master’s degrees from San Jose State University and California State University and worked with companies like Apple, Illumina, and Walmart Labs before joining Microsoft in 2020. At Microsoft, he worked on Fabric and Synapse, two of the company’s key data analytics platforms…