Yitzhak Kesselman — CEO
I am a builder at hyperscale. My passion lies at the intersection of massive data volumes, instantaneous action, and designing systems that are intuitive to use at global scale. As Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, I lead the Fabric Team in Azure Data, spanning Fabric platform engineering, Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, Fabric IQ, Azure Messaging Services, and Microsoft Observability. I oversee a 2,000+ person global engineering, PM, and UX organization building the next generation of data and AI infrastructure. Before expanding my current scope, I was focused on building Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, where I created the vision and drove the execution, scaling it from concept to over $100M in annual revenue in under 12 months, making it one of the fastest-growing workloads in Fabric. That foundation now powers Fabric's broader mission: helping organizations observe, reason, and act on data in real time, through experiences that reduce cognitive load and make complex systems feel simple, reliable, and actionable, all built with a laser focus on quality, resiliency, and reliability. We are moving from an era of manual analytical decisions to autonomous decision-making. By unifying Observability, Real-Time Intelligence, analytics, and Fabric IQ into a single platform, Microsoft Fabric becomes the nervous system of the modern enterprise: a unified intelligence layer that continuously senses what's happening across the data estate, reasons over real-time context, and acts on what to do next. This is the foundation for the next generation of AI agents and autonomous systems that don't just report on the world, but continuously sense it, reason over it, and respond in real time. The best systems and the best teams are built by people who refuse to accept the world as it is. Leadership, for me, is inseparable from this mission. Building platforms at this scale requires more than strong technology, it requires strong teams. I lead with heart and authenticity, building teams where people feel safe to be direct, take risks, and grow beyond what they thought possible.
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Location: New York, New York, United States
Experience: 20 yrs
Skills
- Cloud Computing
- Software Engineering
- Real-time Intelligence
- Data Observability
- Observability
- Real-time Analytics
- Product Management
- Cloud Services
- Infrastructure Reliability
- Monitoring
- Power Bi
Career Highlights
- Led a 2,000+ person global engineering team.
- Scaled Fabric Real-Time Intelligence to $100M in under a year.
- Unified multiple data systems into a single platform.
Work Experience
Microsoft
Corporate Vice President at Microsoft | Microsoft Fabric Team (3 mos)
Corporate Vice President of Messaging and Real-Time Analytics Platform (1 yr 1 mo)
Vice President of Messaging and Real-Time Analytics Platform (2 yrs 11 mos)
Partner Director of Software Engineering (8 yrs 7 mos)
Director of Monitoring @ Google (1 yr 6 mos)
Retalix
Group Engineering Manager (3 yrs)
Smartech Medical
Engineering Manager (4 yrs)
Education
Bachelor of Science (BS) at Tel Aviv University