Surabhi Pandey

Director of Engineering

United States17 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years of engineering experience with 6 years in management.
Expertise in Identity and Access Management and distributed systems.
Proven track record of building high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Services and Infrastructure expert with a focus on Identity and Access Management.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Identity And Access ManagementDistributed SystemsCloud Services

Other Skills

.NET.NET FrameworkAccess ControlAgile MethodologiesAzure ComputeAzure RBACAzure StorageC#EncryptionGitMVCProject ManagementSLA EnforcementScrumSoftware Design

About

Engineering Manager with passion for building results-driven, customer-obsessed, sustainable teams. 14+ years professional experience with 6 years management experience. Strong domain expertise in IAM (Identity and Access Management) and large-scale distributed systems. * Track record of successfully delivering high-quality, on-time, short-term and long-term projects with a team of 15+ engineers. * Proven capabilities in partner and project management and successfully delivering business-critical cross-org projects. * Track record of successfully growing engineers into Senior and Principal band, effectively managing both low and high performers. * Experienced in building a team from scratch, setting the vision, strategy and roadmap, hiring, establishing team structure and composition. * Experienced in successfully hiring, onboarding and managing Engineering Managers and IC7 engineers. * Track record of building and operating 99.99 SLA critical Azure and Meta services with billions and trillions of requests per day. * Comfortable with pure Infra role as well as E2E product ownership across Infra, UX and CLI.

Experience

Snowflake

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Identity and Access Management

Microsoft

Software Engineering Manager

Dec 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States

Engineering leader for Azure Managed Identities, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview

Microsoft

5 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Engineering leader for Azure RBAC, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/overview. Led critical initiatives like evolution of Storage platform, bootstrapping Data Plane access control solution for Azure services, revamp of Azure portal experiences for RBAC and Azure Managed Identities

Software Engineer

Apr 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos

Senior Engineer on Azure RBAC service, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-control/overview.

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Worked on SQL Azure Control Plane services and Azure portal experiences for Server and Database provisioning, management and import/export of data to and from on-prem SQL Server databases.

SDET

Jul 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

Worked on the SQL Server Developer tools project. E2E Test plan creation and execution, test automation.
Owned core features like Project system and core ReverseEngineering engine. Constantly appreciated for finding high quality bugs via automated and manual testing.