Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · On-site

• Leading a team of Large engineers across different Microsoft
• development sites in the UK, US, and India for the past 3+ years
• Responsible for multiple services, such as Azure Private 5G core, Packet Core
• and several 1P/3P orchestration services.
• Defining the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise solution of Azure
• Operator.
• Hired 200+ engineers at various locations of Microsoft IDC to establish
• the operators team in India
• Part of the Microsoft IDC Leadership Team for Noida and the Microsoft
• SMT IDC Site lead for Bangalore & Noida
• Serves as security Champ of Azure for operator's Packet core division and
• part of Microsoft IDC security champs

Nov 2021 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · On-site

• Leading a team of Large engineers across different Microsoft
• development sites in the UK, US, and India for the past 3+ years
• Responsible for multiple services, such as Azure Private 5G core, Packet Core
• and several 1P/3P orchestration services.
• Defining the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise solution of Azure
• Operator.
• Hired 200+ engineers at various locations of Microsoft IDC to establish
• the operators team in India
• Part of the Microsoft IDC Leadership Team for Noida and the Microsoft
• SMT IDC Site lead for Bangalore & Noida
• Serves as security Champ of Azure for operator's Packet core division and
• part of Microsoft IDC security champs

Jun 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos · On-site

• I was the Group Engineering Manager of Azure VPN services, and I
• oversaw various VPN products such as Virtual Network Gateway, User
• VPN, Virtual WAN, Consumer VPN, NaaS, and Azure VPN clients
• I led one of the largest and most impactful Azure services, generating
• hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue
• I managed a team of 29+ engineers and mentored 10+ more at a remote
• location
• I ensured that our cloud network service was reliable and performant,
• providing VPN solutions to Azure customers at a large scale
• I innovated many platform solutions, such as Azure software stack for
• IPSEC, IKE, OpenVPN, SSTP, IPSEC Live Migration, Virtual WAN, OpenVPN
• clients, IPSEC over Express-route, EXP offload, NAT support, route
• management, SDWAN, traffic control, IPSLA, VPN at Edge, DTLS VPN,
• Wireguard, and more
• I architected multitenancy for VPN solutions, ensuring strong isolation and
• high availability
• I designed enhancements to route propagation algorithms, improving
• datapath SLA from minutes to milliseconds
• I architected cloud hybrid integrations with multiple solutions such as VPN,
• SDWAN, Firewall, and ExpressRoute
• I collaborated with the industry for the standard SDWAN integration with
• Azure WAN
• I designed and delivered a large-scale solution for the scalability and
• reliability of Azure Hybrid control path
• I worked closely with many large-scale Azure customers and internal
• organizations, such as M365 office, Bing, Azure Core, Azure Identity,
• Azure Orbital, Affirmed Networks, MetaSwitch, Azure Dedicated, and
• more

Jun 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · On-site

• I was the architect of Windows container networking and designed its
• network isolation
• I delivered the Host Network Service (HNS) for Windows, which handles
• container networking orchestration and virtualization management
• I integrated Windows with Docker containers natively and collaborated
• with Docker Networking Engineering teams
• Designed container networking solutions for Docker Swarm with a software
• load balancer and Innovated Windows container network designs such as
• L2Bridge, L2Tunnel and Overlay Networks
• I designed and integrated Windows container networking for Kubernetes
• and the Windows SDN host agent
• I designed and developed custom encapsulation and load balancing
• solutions for SDN
• I designed and delivered Windows SET for network interface redundancy
• for virtualization
• I was the architect and developer of RDMAv1 and RDMAv2 for Windows
• I designed networking for WDAG and innovated its Hyper-V based
• container integration for higher security
• I integrated the Windows Network Controller with Azure Stack Hub and
• designed its scale and HA solution for networking
• I added many functionalities for Virtual Switch in Windows over Hyper-V
• such as LBFO, SRIOV, VFP, etc
• Worked on all core networking areas such as TCPIP, Transport Framing
• layer, NDIS, HTTP, Winhttp/Webio, DNS, DHCP, WFP, NLA, RRAS,
• DirectAccess, and more.
• Reduced operational costs by 15% through optimization of core
• networking systems.
• Core founding member of IPv6 Adoption and IPV6 transition technologies
• in Windows
• Led team resolving 100+ networking security issuesRedesigned multicast
• processing for TCPIP stack performance.
• Boosted Windows Edge load time by double digits

Nov 2008 – Jun 2014 · 5 yrs 7 mos · On-site

• I was the architect of Windows container networking and designed its
• network isolation
• I delivered the Host Network Service (HNS) for Windows, which handles
• container networking orchestration and virtualization management
• I integrated Windows with Docker containers natively and collaborated
• with Docker Networking Engineering teams
• Designed container networking solutions for Docker Swarm with a software
• load balancer and Innovated Windows container network designs such as
• L2Bridge, L2Tunnel and Overlay Networks
• I designed and integrated Windows container networking for Kubernetes
• and the Windows SDN host agent
• I designed and developed custom encapsulation and load balancing
• solutions for SDN
• I designed and delivered Windows SET for network interface redundancy
• for virtualization
• I was the architect and developer of RDMAv1 and RDMAv2 for Windows
• I designed networking for WDAG and innovated its Hyper-V based
• container integration for higher security
• I integrated the Windows Network Controller with Azure Stack Hub and
• designed its scale and HA solution for networking
• I added many functionalities for Virtual Switch in Windows over Hyper-V
• such as LBFO, SRIOV, VFP, etc
• Worked on all core networking areas such as TCPIP, Transport Framing
• layer, NDIS, HTTP, Winhttp/Webio, DNS, DHCP, WFP, NLA, RRAS,
• DirectAccess, and more.
• Reduced operational costs by 15% through optimization of core
• networking systems.
• Core founding member of IPv6 Adoption and IPV6 transition technologies
• in Windows
• Led team resolving 100+ networking security issuesRedesigned multicast
• processing for TCPIP stack performance.
• Boosted Windows Edge load time by double digits