India, Aug. 29 -- An Indian-origin Microsoft Corp. software engineer was found dead at the IT giant's Silicon Valley campus recently.

The 35-year-old employee was identified as Pratik Pandey.

He badged into the office on the evening of Aug. 19 and was found dead in the early hours of the following morning, a family member who has spoken with Microsoft was quoted as saying by Bloomberg.

The family member requested anonymity to discuss a personal matter.

The cause of the death is still not known.

Microsoft did not comment on the death of the techie so far.

Microsoft is still investigating the death, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Bloomberg reported that he worked on Microsoft's Fabric product, which is used to anal...