Ashish Narain

CTO

Bothell, Washington, United States19 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led global teams to enhance Azure's cloud infrastructure.
Developed strategies for next-gen cloud services.
Passionate about connecting people with challenges.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure and AI/ML expert with leadership in scalable solutions.

Contact

narain@meta.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureEngineering LeadershipCloud StorageDistributed Systems

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesChange ManagementCloud ComputingCloud Service DeploymentCross-functional Team LeadershipDeployment StrategiesEnterprise Network SecurityInfrastructure ServicesLeadershipMicrosoft AzureNetwork SecurityOperating SystemsOperational ExcellenceOrganizational LeadershipPeople Management

About

Engineering leader with extensive experience in delivering global cloud infrastructure, I've led the development of critical services that have driven substantial growth and cost savings in the cloud. I've had the privilege to build transformative strategies, achieving exceptional service availability and customer satisfaction. In my current role at Microsoft, I lead cross-functional teams to develop the next generation of cloud infrastructure, essential to powering the future of cloud storage. My previous team was responsible for driving Azure's service availability goals through change management while ensuring the highest standards of operational excellence. I am a passionate learner, problem-solver and coach and I love to connect people with challenges. If you are curious about Azure, let's chat!

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Engineering Leadership

Promoted

Sep 2017 – Oct 2025 · 8 yrs 1 mo

Developed and delivered strategies for next-gen cloud infrastructure for increased availability for customers and greater scalability and profitability for Azure. Leader of leaders to a global team responsible for cloud deployment services and DevOps. Championed service availability goals for customers into every aspect of change management in the cloud. Responsible for planning and development of engineering talent across Azure Core.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipOrganizational LeadershipLeadershipCloud InfrastructureEngineering Leadership

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Oct 2025 · 9 yrs 9 mos

Azure Storage is a massively scalable, highly distributed service, designed to serve the data storage needs of the entire world. We continue to have a tremendous hockey-stick growth, with several Exabytes of storage capacity in datacenters around the world.
As the service grows to this scale, our ability to continuously innovate hinges on a deployment system that’s uniquely tailored to rollout new code and configuration to millions of machines around the world.
I'm proud to lead a team of highly motivated engineers who are passionate about distributed systems and the challenges of building infrastructure for the cloud.
Together we are building change management systems that are globally aware and can make smart and safe decisions with minimal human intervention.

Infrastructure ServicesLeadershipCloud StorageDistributed Systems

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2012 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Lead a team of engineers to evaluate and profile availability and performance of Azure Storage service components. This included:
1. The data partitioning service that ensures high availability, scalability and utilization of storage clusters
2. Azure storage billing sub-systems
3. Azure storage account provisioning service

Software Engineer - Windows Division/Various Teams

May 2006 – Nov 2012 · 6 yrs 6 mos

From fixing vulnerabilities in the IPsec network security protocol in the Windows OS to ensuring serviceability readiness of the entire Windows Operating System.. it was a fun time.