Mukesh leads a Product Group Engineering Org within Azure Data that helps Microsoft Customers & Partners adopt Azure & Database Platform. Team’s key focus areas are: • Unblocking migration & modernization from SQL, Oracle, Legacy & OSS Data platforms to Azure Data/Database platform. • Unblocking long running product issues and Whiteglove the implementation phase being hands-on with customer & partner.• Making product changes & building custom solutions required to unblock customer’s workload adoption• Bringing product truth back to engineering teams. Team consists of highly skilled Product Engineers, experienced Industry Technical & Data Solutions Architects to provide technical thought leadership during customer's complex digital transformation journey. His role demonstrates a strong technical thought leadership, along with an effective multi-stakeholder management across Azure Engineering Groups, with Sales/Marketing orgs and with Customers, Partners, GSI/SI/Advisory Firms.

Mukesh leads a Product Group Engineering Org within Azure Data that helps Microsoft Customers & Partners adopt Azure & Database Platform. Team’s key focus areas are: • Unblocking migration & modernization from SQL, Oracle, Legacy & OSS Data platforms to Azure Data/Database platform. • Unblocking long running product issues and Whiteglove the implementation phase being hands-on with customer & partner.• Making product changes & building custom solutions required to unblock customer’s workload adoption• Bringing product truth back to engineering teams. Team consists of highly skilled Product Engineers, experienced Industry Technical & Data Solutions Architects to provide technical thought leadership during customer's complex digital transformation journey. His role demonstrates a strong technical thought leadership, along with an effective multi-stakeholder management across Azure Engineering Groups, with Sales/Marketing orgs and with Customers, Partners, GSI/SI/Advisory Firms.

Mukesh incubated an Engineering Org within Azure Data that helps Microsoft Customers & Partners adopt Azure & Database Platform. Team’s key focus areas are: • Unblocking migration & modernization from SQL Oracle, Legacy & OSS Data platforms to Azure Data/Database platform. • Unblocking long running product issues and Whiteglove the implementation phase being hands-on with customer & partner.• Making product changes & building custom solutions required to unblock customer’s workload adoption• Bringing product truth back to engineering teams. This R&D incubation is being done with multiple Data product’s engineering feature teams and with an effective multi-stakeholder management across Azure Engineering Groups, with Sales/Marketing orgs and with Customers, Partners, GSI/SI/Advisory Firms.

Mukesh is a seasoned cloud architect solely focused on the Microsoft Azure public cloud platform. Mukesh works with select Microsoft's enterprise customers and SI partners to assist in the architecture and design of pure cloud and hybrid cloud workloads, specializing in PaaS/IaaS applications, networking, and monitoring. As a CSA for Microsoft, He has the opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Azure services (e.g., Infrastructure, Research, HPC, Big Data, IoT, ISS, Machine Learning, DR, Mobility etc) directly with end customers and with the Microsoft ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers. He continues to lead and mentor the Azure architect's community of assigned Customer and SI Partner's COEs. Mukesh is deeply engaged in providing technical and regulatory guidance to various Cloud managed services offering that Microsoft's SI/Advisory partners are building.

Mukesh has worked with Accenture for ~9 years as a Cloud Enterprise Architect. His primary focus between Sep 2009- April 2015 has been on Incubating Azure platform, building CoE and Managed services around Azure deployments, Lead the technical track of global Azure CoE and manage the complex technical architecture/deliveries on Azure. He has deep expertise on Azure, .NET, C#, SQL, Sitecore etc. Mukesh has been performing a Cloud Architect role being in customer facing roles for engagements targeted on Azure IaaS, Azure PaaS, Dot Net, Large Cloud Assessments, Large Application portfolio optimizations, Custom Enterprise Integration Solutions.

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