Srivatsn Narayanan

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Bothell, Washington, United States20 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led innovative projects at Microsoft and GitHub.
Expert in cloud development and engineering management.
Pioneered collaborative tools for software development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on engineering leadership and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementAi InfrastructureCloud DevelopmentRemote DevelopmentCompiler DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentOpen Source Contributions

Other Skills

Hands-on Technical LeadershipSenior AdministrationDirector levelRuby on RailsMicroservicesCollaboration ToolsInfrastructure ManagementCompiler DesignProgramming LanguagesCode AnalysisTooling DevelopmentProject ManagementAlgorithmsSoftware DesignPeople Management

Experience

20 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

I lead a group in Microsoft Azure that is responsible for bringing service offerings from Microsoft partners to Azure. I am the engineering leader responsible for:
Building AI infrastructure with third party GPUs for Training\Inference workloads for OpenAI and Microsoft AI
Bringing Oracle database services to Azure as Oracle Database@Azure,
Powering Nvidia's Omniverse Cloud via Azure
Infrastructure powering Azure Netapp Files

Hands-on Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementAI Infrastructure

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Nov 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Visual Studio Developer Services - started on a small incubation effort that I grew into a team of 60 people building services for Visual Studio. During this period my team built:
Live Share: A real-time collaboration service for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio Codespaces: A remote-development environment powered through VS\VS Code that moved development to the cloud. This was later productized as GitHub Codespaces.
Incubated a tunneling service that has now been productized as Dev Tunnels

Hands-on Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementRemote Development

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Sep 2011 – Aug 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos

As a leader on the C# and VB Languages team, I was responsible for several key features and innovations in the .NET ecosystem. Some of my achievements include:
Leading the team that built the "async" feature that enabled asynchronous programming in C# and VB Compilers. This feature had a significant influence on the industry, as it became a common pattern in many other languages.
Creating the Roslyn analyzers framework that allowed developers to extend and customize code analysis for the compilers.
Building a hosted analysis service and an indexing service that enabled code analysis and navigation across Visual Studio and web platforms.
Built the tooling for .NET Core projects using a simplified MSBuild syntax and a more streamlined project system, that came to be known as sdk-style projects.

Hands-on Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementCompiler Development

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2008 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Worked on one of the early open source projects at Microsoft - Dynamic Language Runtime which was infrastructure on top of the .NET CLR that powered a .NET implementations of Python (IronPython) and Ruby (IronRuby).
Moved to the C# and VB teams and worked on the compiler and IDE tooling like IntelliSense.

Hands-on Technical LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentOpen Source Contributions

Software Development Engineer in Test

Jun 2005 – Dec 2008 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Visual Studio Team System - Worked on Team Build and Team test - this later became Azure Devops.

Github

Senior Director of Engineering

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

As the leader of the GitHub Codespaces team, I was responsible for creating remote development environments that enabled software development in the cloud. I oversaw a team of about 60 talented people who delivered the product from the UI, to the service that provisioned the dev environments, to the integration with VSCode, browser and JetBrains, to the management of the infrastructure and operations of the service. I was deeply engaged in the product development process, bringing innovative and delightful features for customers while building a solid business for GitHub.

Senior AdministrationDirector levelEngineering ManagementRuby on RailsHands-on Technical LeadershipMicroservices+1