Rohan Kumar

About Rohan Kumar

Rohan Kumar is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, Purview and Trust, where he leads the engineering organization developing Microsoft’s next-generation AI-driven data security, compliance, privacy, and governance solutions. He oversees product vision, strategy, technical architecture, engineering execution, and global operations for systems and services that protect organizations and critical infrastructure worldwide. Rohan began his Microsoft career in July 1998 as an engineer on the core Windows operating system, working on file system kernel-mode drivers. He owned the remote file system stack for Windows, building highly scalable, optimized, low-level components that shaped him into a strong systems engineer with a rigorous approach to architecture, performance, concurrency, and reliability. In 2003, he moved into the SQL Server database engine organization, helping drive innovation across query processing, storage engines, and distributed systems. This role marked the beginning of nearly two decades of leadership across Microsoft’s Data and Analytics platforms. As the CVP for Azure Data, he led the creation and global scale-out of services including Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Synapse, Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Kusto, and Azure PostgreSQL/MySQL.

Experience

1. Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Security

   Microsoft

   Jan 2023 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Rohan Kumar is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, Purview & Trust, where he leads the engineering organization building Microsoft’s next-generation AI-powered data security, compliance, privacy, and data governance solutions. Rohan is driving the transformation toward offering autonomous, agent-based data security and governance solutions. His charter spans product vision, strategy, technical architecture, engineering execution, and global operations across the services that protect enterprises and critical data infrastructure worldwide. Rohan led the teams that created the AI-first security platform inside Microsoft Sentinel, designing an architecture that fuses cloud-scale telemetry ingestion, advanced detection pipelines, vector-based correlation, and LLM-powered reasoning to accelerate posture reasoning, threat detection and response.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

  1992 — 1996

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

  M.S.

  1996 — 1998

• Little Flower Junior College

  11th and 12th Grade

  1990 — 1992

• Little Flower High School

  High School

  1978 — 1990

Skills

• Storage
• Agile Project Management
• Microsoft Azure
• Databases
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Object Oriented Design
• Distributed Systems
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Software Design
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Algorithms
• C++
• Sql
• Windows Azure
• File Systems
• Relational Databases
• Web Services
• Agile Methodologies
• Cloud Computing
• C#
• .net
• Saas
• Visual Studio
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture