Ashish Shah

About Ashish Shah

Customer focused product and technology leader with 25+ years experience at top tech companies. Currently leading a multidisciplinary organisation of 250+ including Product, Engineering & UXD/UXR functions, delivering customer, platform and infra value across multiple $100M+ product portfolios for the Microsoft cloud.• Strong track record of building and delivering core platform and features for $B+ Enterprise Server and Cloud PaaS products (Exchange Server, SQL Server, Sync Framework, Azure SQL Database Service, Azure Service Fabric, Azure App Service).• Experience designing and running scalable, reliable distributed systems and workflows for large scale cloud and backend services with live site excellence.• Experience ideating, incubating and shipping zero-to-one products and platforms (Sync Framework, SyncToy, Service Fabric, SMS Organizer, Azure Native Integrations, Azure App Testing).• Ability to scale through the complete stack, from consumer UX, API and product design, complex distributed systems architecture, and operating large scale infrastructure services.• 20+ years management and leadership experience, with 12+ years as a manager of managers and 6+ years as a Director->Senior Director.• Experience hiring and growing senior engineers and managers (Staff+/Principal+/Directors).• Experience working with and leading geo-distributed teams across multiple global locations (US, India).• Experience working in a complex stakeholder matrix both inside the company as well as with external industry partners across product, engineering, design and go-to-market to build strong relationships and deliver successfully. Specialties: Developer Tools and Services, PaaS Platforms, Cloud Native Testing, Disaster Recovery, Capacity Engineering, Autoscaling, Local Search, Inference Systems, Distributed Systems, Cluster Management, Configuration Management, Cloud-Scale Deployment, Data Synchronization, Agile Development.

Experience

1. Partner Gm, Senior Director of Engineering

   Microsoft

   Oct 2019 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Since October 2019, I have served as Site Leader & GM for Azure Developer Services in India, where I bootstrapped and scaled the org to 250+ people across Engineering, Product, UX, and Research. I built independent product lines for Azure Native Integrations and Azure App Testing and supported multi-billion-dollar Azure services, driving innovation, AI-native developer tools, and platform scale for cloud-native, intelligent applications.I own product strategy, org design, talent development, execution excellence, and customer value creation across multiple Azure portfolios. My teams ship foundational services used by millions of cloud developers and enterprise workloads globally.I also serve on the Microsoft India Development Center leadership team, shaping culture and growth for employees, and incubated Pinnacle, one of IDC’s largest cultural innovation programs focused on AI-native excellence and innovation. A list of services my team works on- Azure Native Integrations for 20+ leading commercial OSS and 3P ISV SaaS services (e.g. MongoDb, Datadog, Confluent, Elastic, Informatica, Dynatrace, New Relic, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, Dell, etc.)- Azure App Service- Azure Functions- Azure Logic Apps- Azure Container Apps- API Management Service- Azure Cache for Redis- Azure App Testing (Load Testing, Playwright Testing)- Azure DevOps and Azure Test Plans

Education

• Gujarat University

  B.E., Computer Science

  1991 — 1995

• Virginia Tech

  M.S., Computer Science

  1996 — 1998

Skills

• Cloud Computing
• Sql
• Soa
• Algorithms
• T-Sql
• Microsoft Azure
• Local Search
• Operating Systems
• Win32
• Java
• Local Search Optimization
• Windows Azure
• Software Design
• Paas
• Distributed Systems
• Web Services
• Windows
• Visual Studio
• Integration
• Data Science
• Data Center
• Relational Databases
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Object Oriented Design
• C++
• C#
• .net
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Data Synchronization
• Soap