Anand Chakravarty Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Managed distributed teams, with 15 full-time reports and up to 10 contingent staff, spread across the USA, Canada & Mexico. Bootstrapped several projects, leading the hiring, on-boarding, planning and execution efforts to successfully deliver multiple products for Google Cloud Anthos over ~5 yearsLed collaborations with Google product teams across geo-regions: Zurich, Warsaw, London, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Toronto, Waterloo.Solved complex technical problems in the multi-Cloud space: GCP, AWS, Azure, on-prem, etcAs a people-manager, emphasized technical ambition and psychological safety, obtaining consistently high ratings.Continued to lead hiring and DEI efforts company-wide

Greater Seattle Area

Designed, implemented and shipped several pioneering solutions that delivered improvements to products company-wide. Led efforts to bridge gaps between Google's internal Borg-based infrastructure and Google Cloud.One of the first engineers to join the Google Cloud Anthos project, starting April 2019.Was a key contributor to several hiring and DEI efforts, including leading recruiting events in HBCUs, HSIs, etcContinued to be an instructor for Machine Learning courses

Kirkland, Wa

One of the first engineers on Google's Cloud AI team. Implemented first-of-kind solutions to several technical problems, working across teams company-wide. Was instructor for internal Machine Learning crash course

Kirkland, Wa

Led cross-team improvements in software release and quality for several Chrome products, such as:Chrome Improvements for Emerging Markets.Chrome App Streaming and Remoting Experience.Chrome Browser video stack.

Bellevue, Wa

Improved Bing's Local Search experience.Created automated pipelines to test, measure and improve relevance of Bing Local Search results

Redmond Wa

Moved to an IC role to get more hands-on in probably the most interesting project in the company at that time: an incubation team in MSR-Research that eventually became the Microsoft/Bing Translator product.Sole owner of backend web-services that drove translation libraries.Created automation infrastructure used by the whole team over multiple product releases.Extensive programming experience in C#, SQL and ASP.NET.3 papers on test automation accepted for publishing; presented 2 of them: at ITNG 2010 and PNSQC 2010.Patent awarded for: “Translating Text on a Surface Computing Device”, MS#: 329175.01.2 Translation applications accepted for presentation at company TechFest-2010.1 app demo-ed at Company Meeting in Microsoft Japan, July 2010.Key contributor to shipping a translation system for Haitian-Creole, a valuable part of Microsoft’s corporate response to the Haitian earthquake in early 2010. Won multiple awards for those efforts.

Redmond, Wa

Managed team of 8 engineers on Visual Studio Deployment Technology Group..Drove improvements in execution and test coverage of product. Led the team through a big transition in management, emphasizing career growth and safety

Redmond, Wa

Manager of SDET team on MSN. Managed a team of 4 engineers, from junior to staff, and hosted multiple interns Programmed in C#, ASP.NET and ADO.NET.Managed and executed on schedule from concept to ship for 5 product releases.

Redmond, Wa

SDET on MSN MoneyCentral server test team. Programming in C++, SQL and ASP.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

B.E., Civil Engineering