Anusha Meka

About Anusha Meka

I am an engineering executive who builds and scales AI-powered products, enterprise cloud platforms, and high performing engineering organizations. My background spans Azure OpenAI, enterprise Copilot platforms, conversational AI, internal developer platforms, and large scale fintech products serving global customers and Fortune 500 enterprises.At Microsoft, I have led engineering across Azure OpenAI and other customer facing and internal platforms, including services operating across 28+ regions, platforms used by engineers, and conversational AI experiences serving 7.5M+ monthly users. My work has delivered measurable business impact, including $54M+ in annual savings, 35% self service improvement, 30%+ infrastructure efficiency gains, 40% lower MTTR, and $53.7B in digital mortgage volume.I am strongest at the intersection of product vision, platform architecture, organizational scaling, and operational excellence. I lead multi-team organizations, developed engineering managers and senior leaders, partnered closely with product and executive stakeholders, and turned complex technical investments into customer and business outcomes.I am often brought in to solve problems like scaling AI systems safely, modernizing engineering platforms, improving reliability and release quality, building roadmap clarity across multiple teams, and growing organizations through strong hiring and leadership development. I care deeply about resilient systems, customer trust, engineering culture, and creating environments where high standards and healthy teams can coexist.Core areas include Generative AI, LLM platforms, Azure OpenAI, conversational AI, distributed systems, multi-tenant SaaS, Kubernetes, engineering org design, platform strategy, reliability engineering, security and compliance, developer productivity, and global product scale.I am open to Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, and senior engineering leadership opportunities where I can help companies build durable products, scale strong teams, and translate ambitious vision into execution.

Experience

1. Principal Group Software Engineering Manager, Azure Cloud & Ai

   Microsoft

   Sep 2024 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Leading engineering organization responsible for Platform Engineering and Service Reliability for Azure Open AI, a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service offering that brings Open AI’s cutting-edge models to enterprise customers via Azure’s global cloud. We focus on the infrastructure and deployment, managing the control plane integration that governs the lifecycle of AOAI resources handling everything from provisioning, networking, RBAC policy enforcement, to regional placement and scaling. Our architecture emphasizes elasticity: on-demand provisioning, auto-scaling, ephemeral job execution, GPU pooling, and capacity planning. We also prioritize reliability and resiliency through global distribution strategies like regional pairs, availability zones, and SLO/SLI frameworks that monitor success rates, latency, and utilization.

Education

• Middlesex University

  Master's degree, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management

• Andhra University

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology

  2004 — 2008

• Texas A&M University

  Masters, Computer Science

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Office
• Xml
• Javascript
• Html
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Spring Framework
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Business Analysis
• Java
• Databases