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Senior Engineering Manager @ Oracle Cloud (ex-Microsoft) | Distributed Systems & Tier-0 Platforms

About

Engineering Executive with 17+ years of experience delivering hyper-scale cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and security platforms across Microsoft and Oracle. Proven track record building high-autonomy regional hubs and managing scalable, tier-0 services. • Org Building & Site Leadership: India Site Lead for Crypto/Security. Scaled teams from 2 to 20+ members (hiring managers & principal ICs). Spearheaded IDC hiring standards, operational maturity models, and technical design review councils. • Scale & Architecture: Strategy and roadmaps for multi-tenant cloud portfolios. Key scope includes the OCI API Gateway (multi-billion daily requests), global PKI trust anchors (auth for all compute nodes), petabyte-scale block storage control planes, and developer platforms. • Mission-Critical Operations: Championed high operational maturity for zero-downtime infrastructure. Engineered the OCI API Gateway through a 100x transaction volume expansion during hyper-growth, and stabilized early-stage messaging frameworks to eliminate systemic outages. Technical Competencies: Cloud Infrastructure (OCI/Azure), Distributed Systems, PKI/Identity, API Gateways, Storage Control Planes, Systems Architecture, Java, C#, C++.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

codex

Work experience

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Oracle, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developer Platforms (Jan 2026 – Present) - Multi-Product Strategy: Direct the engineering roadmap and architecture for a 3-product platform portfolio spanning Artifactory, Test Execution Platform, and Software Ecosystem Management (SEM). Site Lead – Security & Identity Platforms (PKI/Certificates) (Jun 2024 – Jan 2026) - Scaled the India PKI/Certificates footprint from 2 to 21 engineers, directly recruiting first-line managers and principal ICs to establish a high-autonomy execution hub.

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Oracle, Jun 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs, Seattle, Washington, United States, Announcements Service Tier-0 Portfolio Ownership: Spearheaded the strategy and lifecycle for the centralized Tier-0 platform used by all of OCI for critical outage notifications, alongside onboarding 30+ internal service teams for broader operational and maintenance events. Global Team Leadership: Managed a distributed organization of 14 SDE/SRE engineers across the US and India, driving platform stabilization and zero-outage operational maturity. Public Documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/General/Concepts/announcements.htm

Software Engineering Manager at Oracle, Jul 2020 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Seattle, Washington, United States, Service Platform (API Gateway) Hyper-Scale Architecture: Led the engineering strategy for a Tier-0 managed API gateway handling multi-billion daily requests at a 99.95% SLA, scaling adoption from 3 to 140+ core OCI services during a period of 100x volume growth. Core Platform Functionality: Directed an engineering team owning the mission-critical control plane primitives, including API spec management, global AuthN/AuthZ, throttling engines, and centralized audit logging.

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Nov 2015 - Jun 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Windows Azure Storage Self-Healing Infrastructure: Served as Technical Lead for Azure Storage self-healing control planes; engineered automated diagnostics, background validation engines, and distributed failover mechanisms to protect data integrity at massive scale.

Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft, Jun 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos, Worked on networking and storage component for Microsoft Edge browser and Windows Web platform.

Software Development Engineer II at Microsoft, May 2012 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Greater Seattle Area, Worked on Windows Automotive responsible for both in-vehicle and cloud networking.

Senior Software Engineer (4G/LTE protocol development) at Motorola Mobility, Jun 2011 - May 2012 · 1 yr, Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, 4G / LTE protocol stack development - NAS Working on development and support of 4G protocol stack in C running on android smartphones and tablets Experience debugging issues and panics with Trace32 Implemented multimode security feature for enabling continued IP connectivity when moving from 4g to 3g/2g or vice versa as guided by 3gpp standards Triaging issues and analyzing logs based on live network and other conformance toolset Responsible for NAS layer in the control plane with 2 other members, good overall understanding of the control plane Worked on developing test cases in a C based simulator for testing the different scenario’s Hands on experience with different call box R&S, Anite

Embedded Software Engineer at EchoStar Corporation, Feb 2009 - Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos, C,Embedded systems, Linux, OpenTV Developed applications in C for Linux and OpenTV based embedded set-top boxes Implemented a new feature for the IR blaster module to send channel changes through IR commands, made supporting changes to the application, middleware and the drivers Developed a new feature to enable the set top box for recording an entire transponder, made the changes in drivers Responsible for sustaining of 4 different code base with 2 other members Worked on OPENEPG for ViP222 box that enables value added application to hotels Worked on a proof of concept for changing the code to suit satellite acquisitions for Dish Taiwan

Software Engineer Intern at Vanderlande Industries, May 2008 - Aug 2008 · 4 mos, MS Access, MS SQL Server, TSQL, VBA Developed and tested Software Version Control application using MS Access and VBA Designed and implemented a warehouse database and reporting services with a senior software engineer Developed Reporting services modules for automatic emailing of reports and triggers

Education

M.S, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

B.E, Electronics & Telecommunication, University of Mumbai