Venkatesh Narayanan

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

25 years in software product development.
15 years of experience at Microsoft.
Expert in leading projects from ideation to deployment.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned software architect in the Healthcare and SaaS industries.

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.NETAgile MethodologiesArchitectureAzure MLC#C++Cloud ComputingCreative IdeationCreative Problem SolvingDecision-MakingDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsMicrosoft AzureObject Oriented DesignSoftware Design

About

I have worked for 25 years in software product development, of which 15 years at Microsoft and 10 years has been at Philips Medical Systems. At Microsoft, I have worked across product groups, and have successfully shipped multiple versions of products and cloud services. At Philips, I was managing a team in building clinical software applications for CT EBW workstation and MR Gyroscan workstation. I have a B.E from National Institute of Technology, Trichy (1998). I am passionate about technology – hands on experience with architecture, design and development of enterprise products and software platforms. I enjoy working with people, understanding customers, market requirements and technology trends and then making design choices and engineering trade-offs to build products that serve our customers and in the process create value for our business. Specialties: + Leading projects from ideation to deployment + Prototyping in diverse technologies and ramping up team in new technologies + Collaborating with globally distributed teams for success

Experience

Microsoft

6 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Principal Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

Principal Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Dec 2018 · 6 mos

Office 365

Senior SDE

Apr 2015 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Microsoft StorSimple

Senior SDE

Jan 2013 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Office XL WAC

Senior SDE

Jun 2008 – Dec 2012 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Senior SDE with Microsoft Sharepoint Team.
Integrated connectivity to OData based Line of Business Applications (LOB) in Sharepoint 2013.
Defined the architecture, design and coding of Hybrid Connectivity in BCS. Hybrid Connectivity enables connecting from Office 365 Services to any Sharepoint deployment in the On-Premises.
Cross group collaboration with Visual Studio team to enable the required tooling for BCS in Sharepoint 2013. Enabled auto generation of BCS Models for integration with Visual Studio.
Refactoring of the BCS Caching layer

Philips software private ltd

2 roles

Software Architect

May 2005 – Jun 2008 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Built the CT Viewing team from ground-up and collaborated with multiple development sites and stakeholders.
Travelled to Haifa, Israel for understanding and transitioning of the EBW related work to Bangalore.
Owned the complete project plan and estimation.
Definition of the architecture for the Viewing Applications in EBW.
Shipped the following clinical applications in EBW 4.0: Dental CT, Cardiac Calcium Scoring, Functional Perfusion, Brain Perfusion, TileViewer.

Software Architect

Jun 1998 – May 2005 · 6 yrs 11 mos

Part of the architect team that defined the Visualization Component Suite (VCS). VCS provides building block components for creating MR clinical applications.
Shipped the following clinical applications in MR Console: Arithmetic Package, Quantitative Flow, Picture Plus.
Lead a team of 15 and managed the requirements, design and development of the clinical packages for MR Gyroscan workstation.
Responsible for training the new comers on technology and domain.
Developed DMI Files and DMICOM – Data management interface for transferring data from MR Console to PACs and other archiving devices.
Graphical Viewing Editor – MFC based viewing editor for displaying real time data from the MR scanner.