Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Mar 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Jun 2021 – Feb 2022 · 8 mos

• Back to whiteboard to build something new, yet again! Too early to share any details...

Sep 2017 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Azure Space, Azure Orbital (Ground Stations as a Service and Satellites)
• Defining the product strategy, investment areas, customer scenarios and use cases, architecture.
• Driving multiple customer and partner engagements – both internal and external
• Building the product ground-up, including building/leading a team of highly passionate product managers driving various work streams.
• Azure Edge Zones – Public & Private
• Private LTE PoC/Multi-Access Edge Compute (MEC):
• Driving the product definition for private LTE/5G
• Develop the first prototype for a private LTE network deploying in a Microsoft Building as a private CBRS based cellular network, using vEPC and vIMS running completely in Azure
• This PoC made the first data/audio cellular call ever made on Azure, in addition to paving the way for internal funding & investment within Azure.
• Network Edge Compute (NEC):
• Driving the product definition & customer engagement
• Driving the PoC effort that successfully booted the first VM outside of Azure, which paved the way to define the product offering, engineering architecture & internal funding and investment within Azure.
• Azure Bastion
• Azure Bastion is a fully managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP & SSH access to your virtual machines directly through the Azure Portal.
• Founded Azure Bastion as a new Azure Service from ideation to making it one of the fastest growing service on Azure.
• Leading the Ideation, developing scenario prototypes, driving customer adoption & engineering to build the service ground up with negligible funding.
• Azure Gateway Manager
• Lead the Hybrid Networking Infrastructure team, that supports services like VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Application Gateway & Azure Firewall in Azure Networking.
• Deliver on a highly efficient, reliable, predictable & scalable control plane for orchestrating these services.
• Driving core infrastructural improvements including zone-redundant gateways & predictive auto-scale.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Key Responsibilities:
• 1. Co-engineering: Identify top scenarios & engage with top partners worldwide for features in development in Windows enabling broader ecosystem success at platform launch.
• 2. Platform Impact: Translate feedback/gaps from co-engineering engagements into platform changes, enhancements and innovations.
• 3. Grow & Scale: Create assets & collateral that enables partner teams in Microsoft to drive ecosystem scale for scenario and platform features.
• Remote Support on Windows as UWP – Enabling UWP app platform to support remotely controlling Windows Devices & Develop 1P App Experiences – Developed 1P Microsoft Apps
• Identified the platform gaps, authored functional specifications, and engaged with multiple stakeholders across WDG across 10+ feature teams
• Drive co-engineering engagement with 10+ app partners
• Calls+ & Contacts and Message Backup with 2M+ downloads, 5M+ OEM preloads.
• Project Deco 4Afrika – Enable Windows devices with a new subscription based business model for emerging markets.
• Developed a platform (On-device system components and Backend service on Azure) for the delivery of the new business model (Pay As You Go) for key emerging markets in Africa
• Worked with multiple telco in Africa as a first pilot deployment of the platform
• Platform and Ecosystem Impact:
• 200K Windows device deployment by telcos in African market on Project Deco platform as a pilot
• Windows Hello Companion Device Framework – Enabling Windows UWP apps to unlock/logon to Windows devices
• Identified the platform gaps, authored functional specifications, and engaged with multiple stakeholders across WDG
• Personally drove co-engineering engagement and adoption with 15+ partners

Oct 2011 – Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Windows 10 Desktop App Bridge – Enabling Win32 Store apps as UWPs for Windows desktop devices
• Co-Engineering:
• Enabling both 1P App, 3P app and 3P installer technologies partners for the UWP Centennial Desktop Bridge platform
• Drive co-engineering with multiple app partners including the OEM and IHV ecosystem to Moving the OEM preload app ecosystem significantly forward.
• Delivering OEM hands-on workshops & help partners with workarounds to unblock to come to Store.
• Platform Impact:
• Enabled High DPI platform support for Win32 apps and games coming to Store
• Enabled Print to PDF platform support for Desktop App Bridge Store apps
• Unblocked App Extensibility scenarios for Win32 apps packaged to dynamically load plugins wrapped inside app extensions.
• 50+ OEM Preload apps already on Store across top 8 OEMs
• Windows Reference Design (WRD) Program for Windows Mobile
• Owning & Driving the WRD OEM Preload app engagements globally with over 6 ODMs, 10 OEMs & 4 ISVs in over 8 international markets (global owner) for Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and 10
• Globally Boot-up and Create the Windows Reference Design (WRD) OEM Preload app ecosystem with key focus on OEM & ODM partners in China, Taiwan and India
• Drive and address key market blockers for Windows Phone platform for WRD OEMs through delivering high quality preload apps and preload plugins to partners
• Engage with key international WRD ODM partners to drive Windows 8 and Windows 10 preload app scenarios
• Windows Ecosystem Scenario Adoption – Asia Pacific (APAC) & Middle East (MEA) Mobile Operator Engagements for Windows 10/8
• Drive Adoption of Mobile Broadband Account Experience adoption with Mobile Operators in Asia Pacific and Middle East
• Manage engagement for MBAE scenario with over 10 Mobile Operator partners in Asia Pacific (APAC) and Middle-East (MEA)
• Build MBAE Scale program, garner executive support/funding for scale plan & execute/drive scale with multiple international operators in APAC and MEA

Jun 2008 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana

• Key Achievements/Accolades
• 1. Successfully drive partner readiness by engaging with 16 telecom companies, 6 top OEMs, 8 IHVs, 5 ISVs in 19 geographies (USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan, China, Taiwan, Australia, etc.) for Mobile Broadband device compatibility for Windows 7
• 2. Awarded the Gold Star Award for consistent performance.
• 3. Awarded the 2nd Prize by Dennis Flanagan (Director of PM) in PM Idol contest organized as part of PM Symposium.
• Key Responsibilities
• My major responsibilities as Program Manager II (Windows Networking team) includes driving Partner Engagement and Relationship for different programs, Market Research and Opportunity Identification for new features, Competitive Analysis of top competitors and Owning specific features.
• Microsoft Windows 7 – Remote Access – VPN & DirectAccess, Core Windows Networking
• Engaged with 11 top VPN vendors in the Remote Access ecosystem to ensure that their VPN solutions work seamlessly on Windows 7.
• Plan, Execute and Deliver all Windows 7 RRAS features/deliverables with high quality
• Undertaking market analysis to identify top VPN vendors and their respective solutions in the Remote Access space.
• Microsoft Windows 8 – Planning, Prototyping, Proof-of-Concept & Execution
• Owning, executing and delivering Windows 8 features end-to-end - Convergence of VPN and DirectAccess.
• Undertaking market research to identify new features/opportunities for Windows 8
• Actively participating in Proof of Concept and authoring detailed functional specifications for features.
• Microsoft Windows 7 - Devices Just Work, Mobile Broadband (DJW-MB)
• Globally owning the DJW-MB program to ensure adoption and readiness of Windows 7 Mobile Broadband technology with ecosystem partners including ISVs, IHVs, OEMs and Telcos
• Engaged with 16 telecom companies, 6 top OEMs, 8 IHVs, 5 ISVs and over 19 geographies (USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Japan, China, Taiwan, Australia, etc.) to drive platform readiness.