Rony Chatterjee

About Rony Chatterjee

Rony is responsible for driving the growth of the Azure databases business at Microsoft.Prior Rony was the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Tursio. Tursio is an enterprise search platform. Tursio operates in cloud, hybrid and on-premises and operates at scale within secure enterprise environment and provides accurate insights from the data.Prior to founding Tursio, Rony was the General Manager in Amazon Ads delivering Sponsored Products recommendation outside of Amazon on third-party sites which included first party integrations like Pinterest and Brave. Rony was the Head of Product for thematic widgets on the Amazon Search Page. His team partnered with several retail teams (Softlines, Hardlines, Consumables, Climate Pledge Friendly)across Amazon to launch thematic widget experiences on Amazon search page.Prior to joining Amazon, Rony was the Director of the Center of Innovation and Transformation at Microsoft, driving Digital Transformation of the top Azure customers. The Center of Innovation and Transformation led the way in exploring and helping Azure\'s top customers adopt new technologies, techniques, best practices to digitally transform expand and create value for their businesses. The center of innovation team supported and governed the execution of the Digital Transformation strategy and focused on forward looking opportunities.Rony began his career at Microsoft in 2008 as a Software Development Engineer before taking a role as a Product Manager. He has shipped several products like Dynamics 365, Dynamics CRM, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Data Studio, SQL Server within Microsoft and holds several patents. Rony also served as a Technical Advisor to the CVP for Azure Data where he worked on forward looking data strategies of over $10B+ business partnering closely with the Office of the CTO.Born and raised in Kolkata, he completed his schooling at South Point High School, and then graduated with B-Tech in Computer Science from RCCIIT. Rony pursued his master’s in computer science under Dr. Bill Perrizo in North Dakota State University. After completing his master’s coursework in 9 months, he joined Microsoft as an intern. While working full time at Microsoft, he earned his Masters in Computer science, another Masters in Software engineering, followed by a PhD in Computer Science. His PhD Thesis was on \"Stock Prediction Analyzing Investor Sentiments.\" Rony has several patents, research papers published in Springer book chapters and journal publications.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Ai and Databases

   Microsoft

   Feb 2026 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Driving the growth of entire Azure databases business at Microsoft.

Education

• RCC Institute of Information Technology

  Bachelors of Technology in Computer Science, Computer Science

  2003 — 2007

• North Dakota State University

  Masters in Software Engineering, Software Design

  2009 — 2010

• South Point High School

  High School

  1993 — 2003

• North Dakota State University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Data Mining in Computer Science

  2010 — 2015

• North Dakota State University

  Masters in Computer Science, Data Mining

  2007 — 2009