Pranjal Chaware

About Pranjal Chaware

I’m a results‑driven engineering leader who builds high‑impact platforms and teams. I specialize in improving developer workflows, integrating AI to reduce toil, and hardening systems for security and reliability. Over the past year, I’ve led delivery of more than a dozen features across mission‑critical services, reduced friction in branching and release processes, and pushed key security transitions under tight timelines. I coach teams to pair engineering excellence with customer empathy—prioritizing clarity, measurable outcomes, and maintainable designs. I care deeply about inclusive collaboration, operational rigor, and creating momentum toward long‑term product goals.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Jul 2024 — Present

   Key Outcomes • Feature Delivery at Scale: Led teams to ship 12+ production features across core services, improving reliability and user satisfaction. • Security Compliance: Drove organization‑wide security upgrades (including credential modernization), closing priority items on schedule and reducing risk exposure. • AI Enablement: Advanced AI‑assisted summarization and analysis capabilities to streamline decision-making and reduce manual effort for engineers. • Workflow & DevEx Improvements: Strengthened branching and validation flows, reducing errors and accelerating release readiness for global teams. • Cross‑Team Enablement: Proactively unblocked partner teams with targeted enhancements and support, improving throughput and alignment. • Operational Clarity: Instituted clearer telemetry and documentation practices to make complex systems easier to understand and maintain.Leadership & Culture • Fostered a collaborative, inclusive environment; encouraged design clarity and pragmatic execution. • Mentored engineers on secure coding, cloud fundamentals, and data‑driven decision‑making. • Balanced near‑term delivery with long‑term maintainability through architecture reviews and guardrails.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of engineering, Information Technology

  2007 — 2011