Aug 2018 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Leading Engineering teams in India working on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Project, To Do, Visio and cross-M365 workloads like Voice, Video, Eng Systems building beautiful fast & fluid modern, cloud connected, collaborative and intelligent apps & services for billions of users across desktop, Web and mobile endpoints.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Led Product & Engineering for Skype at the Microsoft India Development Center. Worked on the Skype Lite native Android app purpose-built for India with a small memory footprint, optimized data usage and India-focused services. Drove the app from 0 to well past 10M installs through targeted growth work.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

• Visual Studio Team Services provides cloud-based Developer services for any App on any Platform. The service provides Agile tools, Git and CI/CD services for any app whether web app, .NET, Java, iOS, Android running Windows/Linux in the cloud in VMs/Docker containers/clusters.

Jan 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Multi-function role - led Product Owners, Development, Test, UX Design & Editorial. Started up team and grew it to 240 full-time employees (+ 80-90 vendors).
• Re-built one of the world's most used websites - msn.com - from the ground-up on modern Azure stack, launched Sept 2014 serving over 20B PVs/month with 500M+ MAUs.
• MSN Weather, Sports, Money, Health & Fitness apps on Windows, iOS & Android. MSN Money on Android 4.5 stars with 45K ratings and 5M downloads, MSN Weather 4.2 stars, MSN Sports 4.5 stars. Also serve Sports, Money, Health & Fitness searches on Bing/Cortana.
• Beautiful Consumer Experience Design: “Microsoft's built-in Bing Weather app is a beauty.” PC Advisor
• High-scale, high-perf Web Services: serving near-realtime stock quotes, currency exchange rates, Sports scores, schedules, stats for more than 150 leagues/events including NFL, NBA, MLB, EPL, Cricket, Olympics, Weather conditions, forecast data, interactive weather maps for hundreds of thousands of locations
• Technologies: iOS, Android & Windows apps, ASP.NET, Angular.js, Web Services, Azure Services, NoSQL Document DB, Hadoop, Redis, Service Bus, Elastic Search/ELK, Selenium

Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 · 4 yrs

• Led the Program Management function reporting to the GM of the India Development Center Search org. Together we grew the org from inception to 200+ FTEs when I exited.
• Established 3 pillared charter
• Core Relevance: ML work to improve Bing search results yielded multiple points of NDCG gains in the Core ranker as well as segments like Local, Fresh etc.
• Segments: Rich results displayed for head searches on key segments like Entertainment, Weather, Finance, Sports, Autos, Recipes, Events, Attractions
• Search globalization: improving Bing experience in top 12 key markets

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• Led team of 50 including Program Management, Development, Test functions building Data Warehouse for Customer Assistance System for Windows/MSN/other Microsoft products. High scale needed to support all of Windows and MSN.
• Tech: SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Web technologies

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

• Led Development team building Warehouse/Reporting systems for Customer Assistance system, Live Id identity system, Microsoft subscription systems.
• Tech: SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Web technologies

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

• Led team of developers building v1 of Office Online for Office 2003

Jan 1995 – Jan 2001 · 6 yrs

• Developer on Office: performance & infrastructure for Office97, VBA for Office 2000, XP.

Jan 1993 – Jan 1995 · 2 yrs

• Statistical Pattern Recognition for handwriting on mobile devices.