Prashant Choudhari

Technical Program Manager

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 15 years in Development and Program Management.
Expertise in AI solutions for sustainability.
Led multiple successful product launches at Microsoft.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Enterprise Software expert with a focus on AI and data management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Project ManagementMachine LearningSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesCContent ModerationData AnalysisData SynchronizationDatabase ManagementDisaster RecoveryDistributed SystemsHigh AvailabilityHigh Availability FeaturesKnowledge MiningMobile DevelopmentNatural Language ProcessingPerformance MonitoringSQL Server Management

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15+ years of Development + Program Management experience, with several shipped products and features in various areas. I particularly enjoy taking early ideas to full-fledged production in front of real users. My recent interests include applying AI solutions to domains like sustainability.

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Program Manager Lead

Promoted

Sep 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Make Bing safe for kids and families.
Manage the Trustworthy AI team in Bing, whose goal is to make sure that inappropriate content is not surfaced as part of Bing search results, if the users did not intend to see it. This includes moderating content in various categories like Adult, Sexualized, Offensive, etc. depending on the safety settings chosen by the users.
We built query, document and passage classifiers built on techniques like SVM and BERT.

Software DevelopmentMachine LearningAgile MethodologiesSoftware Project Management

Principal Program Manager

Promoted

Sep 2016 – Sep 2018 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

Build knowledge driven chatbots in minutes
Conceptualized the QnA Maker service from a hackathon project to a full-fledged Azure Service. QnA Maker enables you to create a knowledge-base (KB) from your semi-structured content such as Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) URLs, product manuals, support documents and custom questions and answers. The QnA Maker service answers your users' natural language questions by matching it with the best possible answer from the QnAs in your Knowledge base. It is currently being used by over 20,000 customers for various scenarios like customer service, internal FAQ, etc.
QnA Maker uses several core Bing technologies like knowledge mining, NLP and ranking to provide a conversational layer over data.

Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesNatural Language ProcessingSoftware Project ManagementMachine Learning

Senior Program Manager

Mar 2012 – Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Improve relevance of Bing search results for the Technology related queries.
Bing sees a lot of queries around technology, troubleshooting, developer, etc. We focused on providing a better search experience as compared to Google especially for queries related to Microsoft products or services.
We developed several query and document features that can be consumed by a custom decision-tree based ranker to provide better search results.

Software DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesSoftware Engineering

Senior Development Lead

Nov 2007 – Mar 2012 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Manage your SQL Server instance.
Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Azure are Microsoft's relational database offerings. We were responsible for building the manageability experience for both on-prem and cloud SQL instances.
This included several tools to run regular maintenance and backups, dashboards monitoring the workload, performance, etc.

Software DevelopmentSQL Server ManagementSoftware Engineering

Sky mobilemedia

Senior Software Developer

Feb 2006 – Nov 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

SKY MobileMedia was a leading provider of complete pre-integrated turnkey software solutions for mass-market low-cost and feature phones.
Worked as a developer in data synchronization feature of the SKY-MAP framework which, where the PIM data on the mobile phone, like Contacts, Calendar, Task, etc. is kept up to date with another database like Outlook, or a remote server.

Software DevelopmentData SynchronizationSoftware Engineering

Oracle india pvt. ltd.

SMTS

Apr 2004 – Feb 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

As part of the Server Technology team, worked as a developer in various features in the Application Server product.
Primarily owned the porting of high availability features like Cold Failover Clusters (CFC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) on platforms like Solaris64, Red Hat Linux, AMD 64. Released IAS product shipped with Oracle 10gR1 and 10gR2.

Software DevelopmentHigh Availability FeaturesSoftware Engineering