Charles Prakash D. Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

I lead the Entra Identity Protection and Signals org, which is at the heart of the Cybersecurity at Microsoft, with a mission to protect Microsoft enterprise and consumer customers' identities from being compromised or used to gain unauthorized access. We design, build, and run high performance distributed systems including a highly reliable Data and ML.

Redmond, Washington, US

I lead Identity Health Experiences organization within Microsoft Entra, driving self-service observability, diagnostics, and recovery services for Azure Identity. We build platforms and experiences that cater to our customers, partners, and developers - both external and internal. We also build foundational zero trust technology to secure our customer data.

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• Konube enables enterprises and services providers to manage their private, public and hybrid cloud environments seamlessly through a single pane of glass, providing solutions to some of the key challenges.
• Built a geo distributed team from ground up spanning US, Canada and India.
• Led the company through pre-seed and seed funding rounds.
• Drove the company to revenue. Marquee customer was a large ($20B) TELCO & a service provider.
• Built and launched Konube Integrator as a service (SaaS) for Data Centers and Enterprises to visualize and manage cloud resources through a single pane of glass across all major cloud providers, with 99.99% availability.
• Built and launched Konube DRaaS that enables Data Centers to offer Disaster Recovery and Planning as a service to their tenants.

Redmond, WA, US

• Was part of the executive team of the company contributing to strategy and investment decisions.
• Responsible for the R&D budget and P&L. Consistently achieved 25%+ profitability.
• Responsible for leadership hiring and building organization wide policies involving people and infrastructure.
• Contributed to revenue generation by driving key sales and presales engagements and providing top class solutions to customers.
• Led the organization-wide ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management) compliance, including a 3rd party audit.
• Led and delivered over 100+ successful engagements across several customers, ranging from Fortune 100 to startups.

Redmond, WA, US

• Built and led the engineering team from ground up, consisting of software engineers, program managers, UX engineers and operation managers. Established vendor relations with multiple companies to scale the team up and.
• Designed and built a REST framework for IIS handling identity, authorization, content negotiation, serialization and diagnostics.
• Architected, designed and led a team to build and launch GoGoStat, a consumer facing SaaS that helps users be more productive with social media (Similar to IFTTT). Used OpenID, OAuth, AWS S3, AWS SQS, AWS SDB, MySQL.
• Architected, designed and led a team to build and launch 3rd party REST API for building applications on top of GoGoStat platform, the companion mobile apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phones.
• Created several pilots and solutions for customers like Vodafone, Telefonica, T-Mobile, University of Washington and SEATAC airport.
• Integrated all major social networks including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Windows Live, Foursquare and MySpace.

Redmond, WA, US

• Hired, mentored and led the entire engineering team of about 30 people, including Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Project Managers.
• Established highly effective software engineering processes and guidelines for the engineering organizations earning several accolades from the customers directly.
• Responsible for high quality code, timely delivery and people development.
• Worked closely with sales and was a key contributor for key sales and pre-sales engagements.
• Designed and led a team that built the Connected Services Framework product for Microsoft. Designed and built the RDF & SPARQL parsers.
• Architected, designed and led a team to implement and host a marketplace on behalf of Microsoft, for WS-* standards based Web Service providers and consumers primarily aimed at TELCOs and developers to integrate.

Putten, GLD, NL

Founded and chaired the application architecture board responsible for implementing homogeneous architecture across all applications built in the company on the Cordys platform, spanning the application teams of over 100 engineers. Provided architectural and design guidelines through the board to the application teams in the areas of Authorization.

Putten, GLD, NL

• Responsible for 3 product lines in Cordys – BCP Integrator, NetProtector, AutoPilot, leading a team of 65+ people consisting of software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, UX/perf/doc engineers.
• Shipped various product releases with a geographically distributed team between Holland and India key releases among which are BCP 4.2 and Cordys+, a standards-based EAI platform.
• Founded and chaired the application architecture board responsible for implementing homogeneous architecture across all applications built in the company on the Cordys platform, spanning the application teams of over.
• Built and shipped Cordys Business Application Framework, which later went onto become one of the key products of the company, Cordys Orchestrator.
• Built and shipped Cordys Real Time Fulfillment Apps Product Suite with three products – Kanban Manager, Quality Manager and Business Application Connectors, targeting the manufacturing & process industries.
• Envisioned and led a major change initiative, Cordys Continuous Integration, in redefining software development processes impacting over 300 engineers: introduced Scrum methodology for project management, end to end.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsible for designing new features for Telnet in Windows XP and in Windows Services for UNIX (SFU), System Utilities & Installer in SFU, within the Windows division and managing the development life cycle for the.
• Set objectives, priorities and goals for the feature team to ship products on schedule. Managed vendor teams, their priorities and deliverables.
• Shipped SFU 3.0 with major feature additions and merger of MS Interix 2.2 and SFU 2.0 products. Created specs for integrated and seamless deployment, drove the feature team prioritization and delivery.
• Shipped Telnet client and server components for Windows XP.Secure Windows Initiative Champion: Championed driving security features and fixes into the product and was a single point of contact to the global team.

• Architected and led a team of 12 engineers to implement Baan E-Procurement 2.1 and laid the way for common web application framework E-Enterprise; championed product transition from Holland (HQ) to Hyderabad R&D.
• Led the development team of Baan ERP Manufacturing and built & shipped several key modules, including Bill of Materials, Routing, Lead-time Planning, Shop Floor Control and Assembly Control
• Designed and developed Assembly Line Sequence Engine, as an individual contributor, which schedules assembly orders on line segments depending on rules controlled by effective dates. Key customers for this product.

Bachelors In Technology, Mechanical Engineering

+2, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry

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