Dhanas Raju
General Manager, Microsoft Purview - Infrastructure
- Role
- General Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dhanas Raju
Experienced Lead Program Manager with over 24 years of expertise in enterprise product development at Cisco and Microsoft. Proficient in Big Data analytics platforms, Scrum, Solution Architecture, Agile Methodologies, and software architecture. A strong software design and product management professional with a Business Management certification from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.Led a program management team overseeing data center hosting for mission-critical mail ingress/egress and email security components of Microsoft Office 365. Extensive experience in engineering management, leading cross-disciplinary teams to develop a data analytics platform that supported Disney\'s transition to AWS cloud.
Experience
General Manager
Jan 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Lead Purview infrastructure engineering across multiple clouds, compute, storage and data platform layers, providing the underlying platform and automation that enables product teams to deliver at scale.Oversee global engineering, operations, SRE, and product management teams (50+), building a high-performance organization that delivers reliable, mission-critical infrastructure.Delivered a centralized, repeatable build framework for over 15 Purview services, replacing fragmented workflows and reducing restricted cloud readiness from 6 months to 6 weeks.Protected Purview gross margin by owning end-to-end infrastructure COGS for a $350M+ portfolio, enforcing capacity forecasting, utilization targets, and platform right-sizing, driving $35M+ in sustainable efficiency gains.Enhanced Purview Operational Security monitoring and incident remediation ensuring systems remain secure, resilient, and compliant with regulatory requirements including SOC, FedRAMP, PCI and ISO.Serve as executive escalation owner for restricted cloud services, customer incidents, COGS regressions, security/privacy events, and regulatory risks, driving through post-mortems and durable corrective actions.
Education
Coimbatore Institute of Technology
BE, Computer Science
1996 — 2000
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
PGSEM, Management
2004 — 2007
Bharathiar University
BE, Computer Science
1996 — 2000
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