Pavandeep Kalra

About Pavandeep Kalra

GM AI Models + Agents| Microsoft | Product Head / VP / CTO / AI Leader | Focus on…

Experience

1. Gm and Partner, Product Engineering & Ai

   Microsoft

   Jan 2014 — Present

   GM, Microsoft Cloud & AI Responsible for E2E product, engineering and AI execution for the Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing. Each of the Industry Cloud brings the full power of the Microsoft Cloud and partner ecosystem to enable an industry using AI / Generative AI and Data Platform technologies. GM for Azure Industry Product & AI Responsible for AI capabilities within Azure Industry Clouds across Energy, Supply Chain, Retail, Gaming and Financial verticals. Pioneered the \"Azure AI for Industry\" vision, unifying strategy across various verticals. Launched key AI foundational models in the Microsoft Cloud for Industries and secured multiple competitive wins for AI on Azure. Also Responsible for leading engineering incubation teams for Azure in Energy, Supply Chain and Gaming Cloud. These were successfully incubated and merged with Dynamics, Xbox and Energy Clouds after graduation criteria was met Also check out some of our work in the OSS community- https://github.com/microsoft/NLP-recipes https://github.com/microsoft/Recommenders https://github.com/microsoft/computervision-recipes https://github.com/microsoft/forecasting Director of Applied AI teams Responsible for Applied AI teams within Azure AI Platform - Azure ML & Cognitive Service teams. Helped incubate various industry leading AI products for DS community. As the founding engineering director for the Azure AI Platform Data Science team, collaborated with marquee customers and partners to drive innovation in key ML workflows within Azure Machine Learning, DSVM, and Cognitive Services

Education

• The Wharton School

  Bachelor's degree, Economics

• University of Pennsylvania

  Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MIT Sloan Executive Education

Skills

• Cloud Computing
• Management Consulting
• Business Strategy
• Consulting
• Leadership
• Mobile Applications
• Requirements Analysis
• Solution Architecture
• Integration
• Pre-Sales
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Start-Ups
• Big Data
• Agile Project Management
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Intelligence
• Business Development
• Analytics
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Oracle
• Saas
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Product Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Mobile Devices
• Telecommunications
• Team Management
• Product Management
• Enterprise Software
• Strategy