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Yitzhak Kesselman

CEO

New York, New York, United States20 yrs experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS leader with expertise in real-time data analytics and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware EngineeringReal-time IntelligenceData ObservabilityObservabilityReal-time AnalyticsProduct ManagementCloud ServicesInfrastructure ReliabilityMonitoringPower Bi

Other Skills

Software DesignTeam LeadershipAgile MethodologiesOOPObject Oriented DesignTest Driven DevelopmentDesign PatternsMobile ApplicationsArchitectureSoftware DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Vendor ManagementC#.NET

About

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.

Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Corporate Vice President at Microsoft | Microsoft Fabric Team

Jan 2026Present · 3 mos

  • 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.
Software DesignTeam LeadershipAgile MethodologiesOOPObject Oriented DesignTest Driven Development+21

Corporate Vice President of Messaging and Real-Time Analytics Platform

Mar 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Direct strategy, engineering, and product vision for Microsoft's Real-Time and Observability suite, managing a global team of 1,500+ and a multi-billion-dollar P&L.
  • 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:
  • 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝗥𝗧𝗜): Scaled the fastest-growing workload in Microsoft Fabric, facilitating millisecond-latency action on streaming data.
  • 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗤: Developed the "Semantic AI" layer to provide graph-based ontologies and enterprise context for AI Agents.
  • 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: Oversee Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, processing petabytes of daily telemetry as the cloud's primary reliability engine.
  • 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲: Manage Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus, and EventGrid—the backbone for Azure customer service builds.
  • 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: Integrated geospatial and graph capabilities into Fabric, expanding the platform beyond temporal analysis to offer a holistic customer solution.
  • 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
  • 𝟬 𝘁𝗼 $𝟭𝟬𝟬𝗠 𝗔𝗥𝗥: Defined the vision and drove execution for Fabric RTI, scaling from concept to a market-leading $100M+ business in under one year.
  • 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆: Leading the convergence of Operational Data (Logs/Metrics/IoT) and Analytical Data and providing autonomous agents to disrupt the market and provide solution to decades long problem.

Vice President of Messaging and Real-Time Analytics Platform

Promoted

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Leading Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, Fabric Graph, Activator, Azure Maps, Stream Analytics, Event Hub, Event Grid, Service Bus and Data Explorer in Azure.

Partner Director of Software Engineering

Mar 2013Oct 2021 · 8 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Led the Power BI Platform team, a $1B+ business, that delivered the infrastructure, common functionality and operations to Power BI and other Azure cloud services. The team and I scaled the service more than 12x getting it the best-in-class service by Gartner and Forster.
  • Together we delivered a service with 99.97% reliability, and over 60% COGS improvement. Increased support satisfaction in 140%, and NPS in 30%.

Google

Director of Monitoring @ Google

Oct 2021Apr 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

  • Developed and operated Alphabet’s Monitoring products critical for the reliability of Alphabet's production infrastructure and products – from GCP to Waymo – serving 4B+ users worldwide. The products provide actionable insights into service health metrics, empowering engineers and executives with effortless and delightful monitoring of end-user experiences.

Retalix

Group Engineering Manager

Jan 2010Jan 2013 · 3 yrs

  • Led a team of server-side engineers to plan and execute platform requirements for Retalix’ retail platform. Partnered with product and architect groups to plan and execute platform requirements; ensuring that teams have appropriate product and technical specifications, direction, and resources to deliver products effectively.

Smartech medical

Engineering Manager

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs

  • Leading a team of developers in the area of bio-medical. Working closely with dozen of start-ups as the R&D unit, both for development & product specialist, realizing their ideas, innovations & dreams.
  • Technologies: C# .NET 3.0, WPF, WCF, OOP, DSP, RT & Windows Embedded, C++, Matlab, Bio-Medical Algorithms

Education

Tel Aviv University

Bachelor of Science (BS) — Computer Science

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