Mamta Wadwani

CEO

Sammamish, Washington, United States19 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led Microsoft Cost Management platform to 99.999% availability.
  • Accelerated acquisition cycle times by over 30%.
  • Built and scaled engineering teams across multiple geographies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure expert with a focus on cost management and technical leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology DevelopmentCost ManagementProduct StrategyCloud StorageSoftware ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipTransactional Systems

Other Skills

Software InfrastructureAI/MLCost OptimizationScalabilityPeople ManagementData EngineeringData ManagementEnterprise ArchitectureGlobal EngineeringCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct InnovationStrategic ThinkingPricing StrategyTeam PerformanceDistributed Team Management

About

As Senior Director at Microsoft, I lead the Acquire Ecosystem for Datacenter planning, shaping global strategies for land, lease, and energy acquisitions that underpin Microsoft’s cloud growth. I drive scalable, cost-optimized frameworks that have accelerated acquisition cycle times by 30%+, enabled multi-billion-dollar investments, and advanced sustainability goals across global infrastructure. Previously, I directed the Microsoft Cost Management platform, transforming it into a high-reliability, customer-first solution trusted by millions of enterprise users worldwide. Under my leadership, the platform achieved 99.999% availability, reduced cost anomalies by double digits, and expanded adoption across Azure’s largest customers. Beyond product impact, I built and scaled engineering teams across geographies, established operational frameworks, and fostered a culture of accountability and innovation. Across my career, I’ve operated at the intersection of technology, business, and strategy, guiding infrastructure investments, optimizing financial operations at planet scale, and leading organizations through hyper-scale transformation. I thrive on building the teams, systems, and strategies that turn complex global challenges into long-term business advantage.

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
12 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Director

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Own and drive the Acquire Ecosystem for Datacenter planning covering Land, Lease and Energy acquisitions.
  • Lead end-to-end strategy and execution for securing critical datacenter resources, ensuring scalability, efficiency and cost optimization.
  • Spearhead the automation of acquisition workflows, using AI/ML models and streamlining complex processes across Land, leasing and energy procurement to accelerate delivery and improve decision making.
  • Trusted leader with engineering rigor, developing right metrics and processes to deliver measurable impact.
Technology DevelopmentSoftware InfrastructureAI/MLCost OptimizationScalabilityCost Management

Senior Director

Promoted

Mar 2020Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Delivered reliable and extensible Microsoft Cost Management Platform that operates at 99.999% reliability and world class performance.
  • Enhanced the platform with new features and offerings, improving the overall Customer satisfaction score and positioning Azure as a top cloud provider.
  • Expanded to the platform to go beyond Azure and support M365 products and enabled the Cost Management Platform presence in Government and Sovereign clouds.
  • Took responsibility of Pricing Experiences like Azure.com Pricing Pages and Pricing Calculator and introduced innovations in the pricing domain.
  • Pioneered innovations such as Accurate Cost Everywhere, AKS Cost Views, Cost Management AI, providing Sustainability data visibility etc., giving Microsoft’s Cost Management platform a competitive edge.
  • Played a crucial role in business continuity and leading innovations in the Cost Management Platform
  • Grew the team from 15 to over 40+ engineers across multiple geographical locations. Played a critical role in hiring and setting up team in Noida, India.
  • Transformed the team by restructuring and enabling talent mobility and creating self-sustaining unit.
Technical LeadershipPeople ManagementData EngineeringProduct StrategyData ManagementEnterprise Architecture+14

Principal Engineering Manager, Azure Commercial Services

May 2017Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • ● Responsible for delivering Azure Reservations from scratch to multi-million-dollar business.
  • ● Extended the product from 1 to 18+ offerings.
  • ● Architected the plugin model so that new Azure services can enable reservations model quickly.
  • ● Grew the team from 5 to 12 engineers to enhance the product with new features and new offerings.
  • ● Created a new platform service to enable commercial transactions for Azure.
Technical LeadershipData EngineeringProduct StrategyCloud StorageCode ReviewTransactional Systems+5

Senior Software Engineer Development Lead, Azure Compute

Aug 2013May 2017 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • ● Drove the re-architecture and development of Azure usage pipeline for per minute billing (Scale: ~1B usage records /hour)
  • ● Architected and developed event emission framework to support reserved IP billing. (push model)
  • ● Unified the usage architecture of the push and pull model to have a uniform system across multiple Azure services. (working with 40+ teams)
  • ● Own the data streaming platform enabling online, offline and near time streaming of data with sub-sec latency using Azure EventHub. Involved from early idea incubation to final product, driving geo-distributed cross functional teams.
  • ● Enhanced the team productivity by automating the manual processes to reduce the time to launch new VM sizes and new regions by 10 folds. (from 4 weeks to a couple of days)
Technical LeadershipCloud StorageCode ReviewCreative Problem SolvingSoftware Architecture

Amazon web services

Senior Software Engineer Development Lead, AWS Commerce Platform

Aug 2010Aug 2013 · 3 yrs · Greater Seattle Area

  • ● Lead the re-architecture of AWS Billing and Payments Platform. This platform is the fundamental building block used by every AWS Service to facilitate billing and payments of their services.
  • ● Designed and developed scalable distributed billing engine that processes ~1B records generating real time customer bills.
  • ● Designed and developed backend services that execute ~1M payment transactions and collections workflows every month.
  • ● Lead a team of 5 engineers and successfully delivered 5 backend services which operate at 99.99% availability.
Technical LeadershipCode ReviewTransactional SystemsDistributed Team ManagementCreative Problem SolvingSoftware Architecture

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Payments

Nov 2007Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • ● Played lead role in internationalization of CBA and launched CBA in Europe.
  • ● Mentored and lead a team of 3 engineers in India to work on building CBA Merchant console.
  • ● Involved in requirement gathering and analyzing the product gaps for US and EU.
  • ● Designed and implemented a solution for integrating Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) with CBA, reducing the merchant integration pain points.
  • ● Integrated Checkout by Amazon with open source shopping cart vendors like ZenCart and OsCommerce, to facilitate quick merchant on-boarding and market acceptance.
  • ● Involved in design and development of different releases of Checkout by Amazon like Callback API, Flexible Ship Options and Payphrase.
  • ● Designed and implemented persistence layer for Callback API using hibernate and Oracle.
  • ● Implemented Amazon specific automated test framework using XML, Junit and AspectJ to test the end to end checkout experience. This framework provided features like record and replays of the events, periodic test runs and was integrated with the build process for faster defect detection and enable test driven development.
Code ReviewSoftware Architecture

Software Development Engineer Test, Amazon Merchant Technologies

Oct 2006Oct 2007 · 1 yr

  • ● Developed automated testing framework using Selenium for Selling on Amazon (www.sellercentral.amazon.com). This framework improved the software quality and reduced defect leakage to production by 90%.
  • ● Automated generation of weekly operational reports which eliminated ~156hours of manual work per year. These reports are used by business personals to evaluate the overall health of the system and quantify operational excellence of the product.
  • ● Automated deployment process of monthly release of Seller Central software and content.
Code Review

Ibm

Software Development Engineer Internship

Jun 2005Aug 2005 · 2 mos · Austin, Texas Area

  • Validated and tested the Starting point -Product Lifecycle Management Business Integration (PLMBI).
  • Integrated SAP sandbox and SmarTeam server using PLM Integration server.
  • Installed the product on Windows and Linux machines.
  • Performed scenario testing.
  • Analyzed, designed and developed Intranet portal website for department communication.

University of houston

Research Assistant

Aug 2004Oct 2004 · 2 mos

  • Analyzed the results for different de-clustering methods.
  • Compared the efficiency of different algorithms on different volume of data.
  • Reviewed the existing code to improve the performance of the algorithm.

Tata teleservices ltd

Software Developer, Intern

Jan 2004Apr 2004 · 3 mos

  • Involved in requirement gathering and designing the GUI for the application.
  • Designed the database and developed the web forms.
  • Designed Test cases and performed Unit Testing, Black box
  • Testing, and Load Testing.
  • Trained the users to use the website in most efficient manner.

Education

University of Houston

Masters — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Gujarat University

Bachelors — Information Technology

Jan 2000Jan 2004

Convent Girls High School

High School

Jan 1998Jan 2000

Bright School, Vadodara

Jan 1987Jan 1998

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