Phani Tipparaju

About Phani Tipparaju

24 years of experience. Tech savvy. Accomplished multidisciplinary business and operations executive. Believe in empathy as a core ingredient for leaders to succeed with team members, different business units, partners and customers. High-energy, hands-on executive with widespread acumen and executive-level competencies. Extreme ownership with exceptional ability to collaborate, influence and build alignment across senior leadership.Signature Competencies:• Business planning/review• Relationship Building and Influence- Account/Partner management/strategy• High Performance Culture Reinforcement.• Strong Cloud/AI skilled• Cross Functional Team Leadership. Coach and manage teams (OKRs)• Executive Reporting and Communication• Multiyear planning. QBRs and QTRs.• Sales leadership (QBR/Pipeline/Opportunity Management)• Knowledge of financial systems and business servicesTechnical Skills:• Was one of the first V-TSP for Microsoft in 2013/2014 for Azure during the Azure incubation days.• Good Experience in Generative AI, including experience in Azure Data & AI services, AI open-source ecosystem, Cognitive Services, Azure Cognitive Search, Semantic Search, Azure Open AI, Prompt Engineering, LLM fine turning, chaining technology, and Deep expertise in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures. • Advanced skills in Azure Cloud. Knowledge of GCP and AWS.• Microsoft Fabric.• Programming with Python, Jupyter Notebooks, C#, VSCode

Experience

1. Executive Director

   KPMG Canada

   Oct 2024 — Present

   Drive GenAI strategy for tax products, shaping overall roadmap. Serve as advisor to development team and work closely with go-to-market team for GenAI.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  M.E, Manufacturing Systems Engineering

  1998 — 2000

• Bharati Vidyapeeth

  B.E, Mechanical

  1994 — 1998

• Harvard Business School

  Program for Leadership Development, Business Administration and Management, General

  2017 — 2018

Skills

• Pre-Sales
• Software Development
• Alm
• Wcf
• Integration
• Architectures
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Soa
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• Architecture
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Global Delivery
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Visual Studio
• Software Project Management
• Xml
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Microsoft Azure
• Solution Architecture
• Agile Methodologies
• Windows Azure
• Application Architecture