Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

• Microsoft is the leading technology player in AI. AI Platform team brings the AI capabilities to Azure, giving customers the latest of LLM capabilities and Azure SLA, Quality, Security and Governance. Models As A Service (MaaS) helps the customers to focus on harnessing the AI capabilities for their business without worrying about the infrastructure, governance, quality, security etc. In this service, customers will be able to use a variety of models, different capabilities to maximize the impact in their business, while using the same software, same infrastructure for any models. MaaS allows customers to pay only for what he is using, and not worry about hosting, GPU cost or any infrastructure. My role in this team is to
• Bootstrap a team in IDC to start the MaaS development journey in IDC.
• Onboarding key players of LLM world, such as Mistral, Llama, Cohere, etc.in Azure. I’m working on onboarding large language models in Azure,
• Defining a future roadmap for Model Onboarding in Azure. With the explosion of number of models and capabilities, bringing them into Azure, hosting them and enabling them to solve customers’ problem is going to be a critical challenge. I’m working across teams to solve this and making Azure the worlds’ best AI infrastructure, where we bring in impact in every life.

Mar 2022 – May 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Edge Computing and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure is one of the leading technology where Azure is expanding beyond a data centre. This is a turnkey business, which is helping customers from a spectrum of verticals, such as healthcare, automobile, retail, govt. and many more. Microsoft's offering in this business is Azure Stack family, such as Azure Stack Edge, Azure Stack HCI etc. I'm one of the Engineering Manager in this team, owning multiple Azure Cloud Services.
• I've architected and delivered and owned multiple azure services end to end. Worked with key stakeholders, product managers and customers to drive consensus, evangelize solutions, and solve problems.
• Built multiple services which helps Representation, Identity, Lifecycle management, of millions of remote devices, handling security, network resiliency at scale
• Help to manage lifecycle of millions of such devices, under a single pane of glass.
• Built solutions which helps to translate and represent large scale of heterogeneous devices under a single schema and functionality
• Architected, developed and delivered multiple cloud management capabilities, such as workload deployment, updates etc.
• Drove multiple projects, POCs, new technology, which has helped the organization to step into new direction
• Have grown a highly capable team and led v teams across the globe to deliver solutions spanning multiple teams and techstacks.
• Love to tackle infrastructure and operational challenges. Have been able to bring down Operational cost by 40%, enabling running end to end services with minimal resources. Have driven multiple platforms migrations under complex scenarios
• Owned StorSimple Data Manager, which was a novel elastic compute based data transformation solution as a part of Azure Storage, helping Microsoft to retain a customer base owning 67PB of data in Azure.

Sep 2017 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos

Feb 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos