Navkaran Singh

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Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India12 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for Copilot growth across Microsoft mobile apps.
  • Secured billions of users from web threats with innovative solutions.
  • Recognized with Microsoft Excellence Awards for leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and SaaS expert with a focus on engineering leadership and product growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile EngineeringEngineering LeadershipProduct-led GrowthSoftware ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AI/LLM ApplicationsA/B ExperimentationAI/MLMicroservicesHiringDistributed SystemsReliabilityPerformanceModern ObservabilityJavaPL/SQLUnixData StructuresAlgorithmsSpring Framework

About

Engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling planet-scale backend systems and growth platforms at Microsoft. Currently leading engineering for Copilot Growth across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint mobile apps — driving roadmap, architecture, A/B experimentation, and PLG-led onboarding & retention experiments across M365 mobile. Previously led Microsoft's global Web Defense service, protecting 2.5B+ monthly devices and serving 15B+ daily lookups against phishing, tech-scam, and other web threats. Owned detection pipelines, threat-signal ingestion, and mitigation flows; modernized infra for resiliency and global failover; and shipped LLM-powered triage tools that meaningfully cut investigation time. What I focus on: • Engineering leadership, org scaling, and cross-geo execution • Distributed systems, web protection, and high-scale backend services • AI/LLM-driven features and Copilot growth on mobile • Reliability, performance, and modern observability • Hiring, mentorship, and engineering excellence Based in Noida, India. Always up for conversations on AI-powered product growth, large-scale systems, and building strong engineering teams.

Experience

12 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Principal Engineering Manager — Copilot Growth, M365 Mobile

Jul 2025Present · 11 mos

  • Leading engineering for Copilot growth across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint mobile apps at Microsoft.
  • Drive roadmap, architecture reviews, and A/B experimentation for Copilot growth surfaces
  • Ship PLG-driven onboarding and retention experiments improving user engagement
  • Own customer engagement funnels across M365 mobile experiences
  • Mentor engineers, lead hiring, and build scalable onboarding for the Noida site
Mobile EngineeringEngineering LeadershipProduct-Led GrowthAI/LLM ApplicationsA/B ExperimentationAI/ML

Principal Engineering Manager — Web Defense

Promoted

Aug 2024Jul 2025 · 11 mos

  • Led engineering for Web Defense — Microsoft's global web protection service securing billions of users from phishing, tech-scam, and other web threats.
  • Scaled the platform to protect 2.5B+ monthly devices and serve 15B+ daily lookups
  • Owned architecture for detection pipelines, threat-signal ingestion, and mitigation flows
  • Modernized infrastructure for resiliency, availability, and global failover readiness
  • Reduced false positives via enhanced ML/heuristic detection logic
  • Built LLM-powered triage tools that meaningfully cut investigation time and boosted engineering efficiency
  • Recognized with Microsoft Excellence Awards for Leadership & Delivery
Software ManagementSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jan 2022Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Engineering Manager on Microsoft's Web Defense team — leading a team delivering core capabilities for the global web protection service.
  • Led a team of senior engineers shipping detection-pipeline features and reliability improvements across the Web Defense platform
  • Drove false-positive reduction by partnering with data science to enhance ML/heuristic detection logic
  • Owned operational quality: on-call rigor, alerting, post-incident reviews, and reduced incident time-to-mitigate
  • Partnered with PM, data science, and adjacent platform teams on cross-org launches and threat-response programs
  • Hired, mentored, and grew the engineering team across geos; ran career development for ICs
Software Management

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • IC engineer on Microsoft's Web Defense team — built backend services on Azure powering real-time URL/threat lookups for the global web protection platform.
  • Built and shipped high-throughput services and REST APIs serving real-time lookup traffic
  • Owned components in the threat-signal processing pipeline; tuned performance, memory footprint, and dependency cost
  • Implemented telemetry, dashboards, and alerting that improved on-call detectability and response times
  • Integrated ML model outputs into production detection paths in close partnership with data scientists
  • Drove incident triage, runbooks, and post-incident reviews; raised the on-call quality bar

Amdocs

3 roles

Software Development Specialist

Promoted

Jan 2020Mar 2020 · 2 mos

Software Developer

Feb 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Software Developer

Jun 2013Feb 2018 · 4 yrs 8 mos

  • Software Development

Education

Guru Nanak Dev University

Bachelor's degree — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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