Ashwin Kulkarni

About Ashwin Kulkarni

An analytical, technical executive with over eighteen years of Product Lifecycle expertise within the computer software industry in Product Development, Product Planning and Product Management capacities at Microsoft, Wyse Technology, PeopleSoft, Inc. and Oracle Corporation, managing global business exceeding $250 million. Experience in varied industries including business applications, embedded systems, servers and cloud services. Education includes Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay, Expertise in product development, product management, product planning, marketing, and strategy.

Experience

1. Partner Program Manager - Azure Capacity

   Microsoft

   Sep 2022 — Present

   Owned product strategy for cloud-scale capacity, pricing efficiency, and margin optimization, delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in COGS savings while sustaining rapid enterprise growth.• Build and leverage AI models to transform the infrastructure operations through agentic frameworks• Led transformation of capacity planning and demand forecasting models, leveraging advanced data signals and predictive analytics to reduce demand volatility by ~30% and materially improve sellable capacity accuracy.• Drove automation of the end-to-end planning and execution pipeline, increasing effective capacity monetization by ~20% and improving customer experience for enterprise workloads.• Partnered with Finance and Engineering leadership to translate infrastructure innovation into commercial outcomes, influencing multi-year investment decisions across Compute, Storage, and Network.• Built and scaled a high-performing global product organization embedding execution rigor while enabling innovation at hyperscale.• Acted as a senior advisor to Azure leadership on pricing economics, margin frameworks, and long-term platform strategy.

Education

• University of Mumbai

  B.E, Electronics

  1990 — 1994

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  M.B.A, Strategy and Management

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Negotiations
• Product Marketing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Process
• Business Development
• Product Development
• Pre-Sales
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Business Alliances
• Business Intelligence
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Product Launch
• Partner Management
• Enterprise Software
• Cross Group Collaboration
• Strategic Influence
• Saas
• Process Orientation
• Strategic Business Planning
• Software Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Product Management
• Data Center
• Product Vision
• Competitive Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Revenue Optimization
• Program Management
• Mobile Devices
• Business Models
• Software Project Management
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Global Team Management
• Product Planning