Debbie Furtado

About Debbie Furtado

Effective Group Engineering Manager of engineering teams.• Strong driver of engineering excellence, cost-effectiveness and innovation.• Demonstrated success in shipping hyper-scale services, experiences and platforms with high quality. • Strong contributor and cross-company collaborator in several v1 products/features.• Architected and guided the designs of several scalable, reliable and highly available services.• Recipient of Gold Star awards at Microsoft for Management and Engineering Excellence.• Assistant co-founder of a start-up company.Specialties: Performance-sensitive, Scalable and reliable systems, execution focused on business impact and efficiencies.

Experience

1. Principal Group Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Dec 2020 — Present

   Own the key Data sets (Auth, Audit and COGS) and platforms for Data, providing Intelligent Insights that drive critical business decisions and that enhance Security, Governance, Compliance and Observability for Customers. The platforms handle high scale (in the order of billions/day), geo-distributed, compliant data for millions of customers.

Education

• Goa Engineering College - Government of Goa

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE

• Goa University

  Bachelor

• Goa University

  Master

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Software Design
• Technical Architecture
• Xml
• Software Development
• Team Leadership
• Integration
• C#
• Architectures
• Mobile Devices
• Microsoft Sql Server
• People Management
• Windows Azure
• Microsoft Technologies
• Distributed Systems
• Web Services
• C++
• Databases