Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Leading diverse engineering teams comprising of Engineering managers, software / data engineers and data scientists. My teams build software that support key business processes like capacity planning for Azure Data Center's, supply chain execution, Data center management and sustainability.
• Build the platforms that enable Demand Forecasting, Data platform for Supply Chain Analytics and Sustainability, powered by ML/AI.
• Responsible to hire and grow talent within team and across the organization, while also developing leaders internally ·

Mar 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Leading a Software Engineering team that is responsible for
• People and Organizational Analytics at Microsoft
• Talent Analytics
• Building the core Data platforms for all of HR Analytics which are highly secure and compliant
• Technologies that build on top of Azure Data Lake/Blob Storage, Databricks(Spark/Scala), Azure Analysis Services etc.

Nov 2015 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Lead a team of software engineers that build the latest and greatest analytics platform to enable decision making for 6 billion $ business.
• Build reporting solutions that use big data platforms, SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data lake etc.
• Hire the best people for Microsoft.
• Growing people's careers by guiding and providing the best opportunities to learn and deliver value to Microsoft Services business.

Jul 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Responsible for building near real time operational reporting systems with low latency.
• Ensure optimal designs for quick decision making.
• Growing the team across FTE's and suppliers and making sure delivery is on time with high quality.
• Skills Acquired: Design of Operational reporting systems with low latency, building tabular cubes for reporting, Power BI dashboards, real time reporting, ensuring team cohesiveness to enable high quality delivery

Jul 2011 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs

• As a Senior Engineer, I was responsible for working and delivering on several V1 applications and platforms during this period. My core responsibilities
• Own end to end design and development of tools, services and platforms for Microsoft Enterprise Services
• Guide and mentor younger members in the team on project delivery.
• Skills acquired: transitioning new projects across geographies, dealing with ambiguity during V1 development, Excel addins programming using C#, Building scalable WCF services, Entity Framework , SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, develop large scale warehouses.

Feb 2009 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• In this role I was responsible for building DataWarehouses for understanding and measuring the support Experience provided by Microsoft to consumers.
• My responsibilities included
• Design of warehouse to gather support incidents data and their feedback from customers.
• Build scalable ETL's which ensure data is made available on time.
• Onboard new businesses to our warehousing platform so that support experience can be measured across different lines of businesses.
• Skills acquired: SSIS, Datawarehousing, ETL's, SSRS, Kimbal and Inmon methodologies of Warehouse design etc.

Aug 2008 – Jan 2009 · 5 mos

• My final role as part of the APEX Program was that of a Software Development Engineer in building tools for Market Research space. As part of this role, my responsibilities included
• Building tools that aid in Market Research using C#.NET
• Created thick client applications that users can use to work offline with Market research data and pass on feedback to appropriate product teams.
• Skills Gained: ClickOnce Deployment, SQL Server Express Edition, C#.NET 2.0

Jan 2008 – Jul 2008 · 6 mos

• My third role as part of the APEX Program was that of a Program Manager in the Microsoft Engineering Excellence space. As part of this role, my responsibilities included
• Understand, Analyze and document the training needs of the organization. Whether Microsoft India employees are up skilled according to their level needs.
• Design and Develop metrics using SQL Server Reporting Services that enable Engineering Excellence leadership team to view and understand training needs for every sub organization.
• Come up with suggestions to up skill organization on latest technology trends
• Measure the effectiveness of trainings in aiding the growth of an employee.
• Analyze and suggest further trainings to be added to the learning portal based on employee needs.
• Skills gained: Requirement gathering, Analysis of data, Stakeholder management, Planning, Strategic thinking etc.

Jul 2007 – Dec 2007 · 5 mos

• As part of my second rotation in the APEX Program, I took up the challenging role of Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). This role required me to
• Develop automated frameworks in C# that would test WCF Services that fetch high volumes of data.
• Load and Performance test the WCF Service and ASP.NET Website to ensure there are no challenges in production.
• Ensure that code shipped by the SDE is of high quality and there are no bugs whatsoever.
• Skills Gained: Functional Testing, Whitebox and blackbox testing, Test automation, WCF Services, Load and Performance Testing, VSTF usage for testing.

Dec 2006 – Jun 2007 · 6 mos

• Software Development Engineer:
• I was part of a talent development program called APEX (Accelerated Professional EXperience), during which I was required to play multiple roles of SDE, SDET and PM every 6 months across teams. During my first tenure of 6 months, I worked as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) working on
• Building a reusable framework on top of SQL Server Full Text Search for searching large number of documents that are stored as BLOB's. This enabled users to search through large documents without worrying about how they are stored.
• Ensuring the reusable framework built in .NET 2.0 is able to work with legacy COM components without any compatibility issues.
• Skills Gained: C#,.NET Framework 2.0, Working of COM components, SQL Server Full Text Search, MS Build, VSTF, ASP.NET Custom Controls.

Jun 2006 – Nov 2006 · 5 mos

• Intern Developer:
• As an intern in Microsoft, I was responsible for end to end delivery of dashboarding solutions to the Microsoft IT India leadership team, giving insight into the functioning/health of the organization based on key metrics. All this using a combination of different technologies like SQL Server Analysis services, ASP.NET , SharePoint, SQL Server Reporting Services, Business Intelligence Scorecard Manager. Additionally, a lot of automation was needed to get information from various tools like Product Studio, VSTF and in some cases file uploads.