Microsoft’s bold vision of Azure Machine Learning (ML) is to democratize ML and make it available to every enterprise, developer and data scientist. I am leading a team which is entrusted with serving all internal and external ML workloads mounting to serving billions of requests per day on the most cutting-edge scenarios and models across the company. The inference team works on the next generation of model serving that includes hosting OAI models like ChatGPT, hosting models at Bing and Office scale and many exciting problems on the intersection of AI and Cloud. Designing and building highly reliable, available platform to support model inferencing at scale and work on high throughput/low latency scenarios and driving performance optimization capabilities.

Engineering and Product Leader for Bing, Copilot and Microsoft AI Platform India team. My org innovates, builds and operates the backend infrastructure at unprecedented scale, agility and efficiency needed for WebXT services like Bing search, Ads, MSN news, Edge browser, Bing and Azure Maps, and many more consumer experiences like Shopping, Multimedia, eSports, Travel, Locals Info, Weather etc. and serves 100s of millions of daily active users around the world with high availability and performance.

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Owning the entire IAAS infrastructure and platform stack for Flipkart cloud platform from bare bone hardware and data centre, networking and all the way up to the software stack. Reinvented the entire team and platform top to bottom to a world class level in order to take on the next set of scale and performance challenges. A perfect demonstration of tech and people leadership acumen with exposure to handle essential, deep and wide crucial tech charter while building and growing teams in the order of ~50 direct and indirect reportees.

Leading a team of engineers working on the next generation distributed application (PAAS) platform (Azure Service Fabric) for Azure cloud.

Leading a team of developers working on Azure stack leading into the consolidation of the Compute Platform.

Lead the AppFabric and Azure In-Memory Distributed Caching (a.k.a. Velocity) Dev Team. Built the product from scratch all the way down to making it part of Microsoft Azure offering!

Worked on Optical switches by Lucent like CBX-500/ CBX-3500 in the area of SONET device drivers and features like board bring up, APS (fault tolerance) etc. Some of the boards were IMA, GigE etc.

Worked on Cisco Routers like 26xx, 36xx, 37xx on various layers starting from drivers to application layer like H.323 (VoIP), SNMP etc.