Anurag Mehrotra

Product Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Transformed Azure Migrate into a robust platform.
Pioneered Azure Backup service generating significant revenue.
Secured multi-billion dollar deals through customer collaboration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and SaaS expert with a strong focus on product management and customer-centric solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCloud ComputingCloud ArchitectureCloud Backup SolutionsData ProtectionWindows OsEmbedded SystemsSoftware Development

Other Skills

AIAutomation TestingBackup SolutionsCustomer AdoptionCustomer CollaborationEnterprise SoftwareFeature DeliveryField CoordinationFirmware DevelopmentManagementNetworkingOS OptimizationOperating SystemsPlatform DevelopmentRisk Management

About

With over eleven years of experience as a product manager at Microsoft, Anurag is a cloud computing leader who has transformed Azure Migrate into a robust platform that enables partners and customers to migrate their workloads to Azure with ease and confidence. He has pioneered and scaled the workload backup service in Azure Backup, which has generated over a quarter-billion-dollar annual revenue for Azure. Anurag is passionate about creating customer-centric solutions that address their business continuity and disaster recovery needs. He has collaborated closely with top Azure Backup customers and field teams to secure multi-billion dollar deals, create sales plays, and provide feedback to product groups. He worked as an architect in a high-impact rotation program to accelerate customer adoption of Azure and bring more technical depth to the field.

Experience

Microsoft

6 roles

Principal Product Manager, Azure Resiliency

Promoted

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Envisioned and led the creation of Azure Resiliency Hub, a SaaS service that leverages AI to help enterprises assess and improve the resiliency of their business-critical applications.

Product ManagementCloud Computing

Principal Product Manager, Azure Migrate

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Transformed Azure Migrate service into a robust platform, enabling 1P partners to create their workload specific migration scenarios on top of Azure Migrate. This streamlined workload migration tool development, significantly reducing engineering effort and significantly accelerating time to market for partners and enabling new customers for Azure.

Product ManagementCloud Computing

Senior Product Manager Cloud Architect, Azure Infra

Sep 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Nominated by senior leadership (CVP) for a high-impact rotation program to work as an architect in field and accelerate customer adoption of Azure, also more technical depth to field based on my product experience.
Led a team of three Infra CSAs focused on BCDR and storage that secured multi-billion dollar deals in committed revenue, set to be realized over the next 3-5 years.
Created a co-ordination channel between field and product groups to share learnings and feedback.

Cloud ArchitectureProduct Management

Senior Product Manager- Azure Backup & Storage

Promoted

Jul 2015 – Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Pioneered and scaled the workload backup service in Azure Backup from inception to a remarkable quarter-billion-dollar direct ACR for Azure within a four-year period.
Collaborated closely with top Azure Backup customers to meet their BCDR requirements and played a pivotal role in several EBC meetings with customer leadership, guiding their Azure Backup adoption strategies.
Introduced crucial features, such as application-consistent Azure Linux VM backup, enhancing Azure Backup's credibility for Linux workloads.
Received several awards for customer obsessed, culture awards.

Product ManagementCloud Backup Solutions

Product Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager

Apr 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Delivered several features like backup of Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Always On support and Exchange 2016 support.
Delivered sessions in customer conferences like Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Ready, Microsoft Future Ready etc.

Product ManagementData Protection

Product Manager, Windows Group

Feb 2012 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Led the timely delivery of monthly Windows updates to over 1.3 billion users.
Introduced a disk consumption optimization feature, reducing disk consumption by Windows OS upgrade by over 30% in WS 2016.

Product ManagementWindows OS

Hewlett packard

Software Engineer

Jul 2008 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos

I worked as a software developer in embedded space creating firmware for network routers and switches that are used at the core of computer networking to transfer packets over Internet. One of the major project that I worked on was for providing a software version independent backward compatibility framework. It enabled the team to focus on their feature development without worrying about breaking changes. I also added automation test suite that developers can use to detect and fix any issues in their changes. I was awarded a US patent ID# 82858619 for the framework we created.

Embedded SystemsSoftware Development