Shau Phang

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Redmond, Washington, United States27 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 23+ years in engineering and product leadership.
  • Led complex data platforms for $3B business.
  • Drove $100M revenue through Azure database migrations.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on data platforms and cloud migration.

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Agile MethodologiesFinancial AnalysisProgram ManagementSQLSoftware Project Management

About

• Seasoned engineering and product leader with 23+ years of experience building enterprise scale SaaS and PaaS services • Currently Vice President of engineering leading Data Platform supporting one of the most complex platforms that powered $3+B Engagement 360 business for reliability, availability and performance. • Build high performing and diverse team to create broad impact • Engineering Architect at Microsoft leading migration motion for Azure Database for PostgreSQL and Azure Database for MySQL; Accomplished $100M revenue in the first fiscal year • Past experiences also include Product Management at Microsoft defining product roadmap and customer success for new features like SQL Server R Services and HDInsight • Also drove customer adoption in large scale internal platforms including anomaly detection and diagnostic pipeline for Azure SQLDB • Experience in driving product fundamentals including supportability and serviceability for SQL Server and managing security applications of Code-signing, PKI and Anti-virus Scanning for Microsoft. • Core strengths in bringing clarity to complex and ambiguous environments and removing roadblocks to achieve business outcomes

Experience

Salesforce

2 roles

VP of Software Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Nov 2019Feb 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos

  • Senior Director of Engineering, managing Engagement 360 Data Platform, one of the most complicated and biggest SQL Server estate, for performance, scale and reliability.
  • Manage customer relationships showcasing best practices in using E360 products and services

Microsoft

6 roles

Principal Engineering Architect

Sep 2019Nov 2019 · 2 mos

  • Responsible to drive Azure Open Source (OSS) DBs revenue through scalable migration service, go-to-market motion, and field enablement.
  • Architect and built migration solution to enable 500 enterprise customers migrating large scale data to Azure.
  • Speaker at multiple industry conferences on Modernizing Application by Migrating to Cloud.

Senior Engineering Architect

Promoted

Jul 2017Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Defined product roadmap and go-to market for public preview and general availability of Azure Data Migration Service.
  • Trained and prepared sales motion with 14 Microsoft global sales regions.
  • Evangelized customer success stories and scaled sales motion by writing technical blogs, presenting at technical conferences, building solution templates, and setting up user communities.

Senior Program Manager

Feb 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Defined PM role and responsibility, team vision, and strategy for an incubation Customer Success (Tiger) team to increase customer adoption for Microsoft R Server and HD Insight.
  • Established accountabilities, KPIs, and success criteria and drove monthly business reviews with leadership team.
  • Drove priorities and planning for Azure LRP.
  • Managed customer relationship including engaging in customer escalations and unblocking customers in production scenarios.

Program Manager

Promoted

Sep 2011Feb 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Led program management in anomaly detection pipeline that served the scale and performance for SQLDB. The anomaly detection pipeline was one of the main telemetry signals for SQLDB and eventually integrated to Geneva as standard Azure monitoring pipeline with daily ingested data of 3-6TB.
  • Led program management in service diagnostics and analytics tool (Crystalweb) which served as the main diagnostics tool for SQLDB DevOps team.
  • Managed and delivered multiple product improvements in Setup Deployment Platform in SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014.
  • Executed on service readiness across multiple milestones of SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014 releases.

Service Engineer - System Architect

Apr 2005Sep 2011 · 6 yrs 5 mos

  • Designed and architected optimal and performant line of business applications in Microsoft IT managing Key Encryption Security, PKI and Anti-Virus Scanning products.
  • Sourced, negotiated, and executed procurement from 3rd party hardware and solution delivery vendors in delivering Key Encryption and Management Service.
  • Subject matter expert (SME) in Code Signing application which provides digital signature to all source codes released to external Microsoft.
  • Provided break fix and Tier 3 problem investigation to support High Business Impact (HBI) applications that safeguard Microsoft intellectual property.

Senior Operations Engineer

Sep 2000Apr 2005 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Led engineers in supporting global Microsoft Release applications.
  • Improved regional support team Service Level Agreement (SLA) metrics and reduced support cycle time.
  • Built and maintained healthy relationship with manufacturing vendors in Singapore and China to bridge the knowledge gap in using release applications.

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System Analyst

Jan 1999Sep 2000 · 1 yr 8 mos · Lincolnshire, IL

  • Analyzed customer requirement and customized in-house application to manage annual Benefit Enrollment. This in-house application was used by Benefit Enrollment Helpdesk to enter benefit enrollment for end user.
  • Engaged in client set-up and platform conversion process.
  • Coordinated testing effort with application test team to deploy system codes.

Education

University of Washington

MBA — Technical MBA

Jan 2008Jan 2010

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

BS — Management of Information

Jan 1996Jan 1998

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