Om Kanwar

About Om Kanwar

Experienced technologist with a penchant for driving software products from concept to market. Having a strong background in computer & data science, and a knack for understanding customer needs, I love to help teams drive creation of impactful software products.Product Interest Areas: collaborative canvases; tools for productivity, visual work & diagramming; e-Learning; educational technology; electronic design automation (EDA) and CAD tools; gaming.Academic Interests: Real time co-authoring systems and distributed data structures; scalable web services and distributed systems; search technology; algorithms for deep-submicron VLSI design layouts — placement, routing, parasitic extraction, physical design sign-off (DRC); computational geometry; advanced algorithms; algorithm parallelization;

Experience

1. Principal Group Engineering Manager (Hiring for Engineering Positions)

   Microsoft

   Sep 2020 — Present

   Helping make Microsoft Whiteboard, a part of Microsoft 365, the best collaborative digital canvas in the world for effective meetings and engaging learning. If you wish to join the awesome engineering team in Noida, please get in touch.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

  Masters, Computer Science and Engg

  2000 — 2002

• Kurukshetra University

  B.Tech., Computer Science and Engg

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Unix
• C
• Programming
• Problem Solving
• Agile Methodologies
• Very-Large-Scale Integration (Vlsi)
• Algorithms
• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• C++
• Linux
• Business Intelligence
• Formal Verification
• Vlsi
• Debugging
• Tcl