Sarosh Havewala
Empowering humans with AI | Investor, Innovator, Leader, Mentor, Coach
- Role
- Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sarosh Havewala
I am an engineering leader focused on empowering humans with AI. I build and grow global teams to achieve their true potential and deliver success, through empathetic leadership, mentoring and coaching. I have been driving bleeding-edge innovation in the application of AI to improve the lived experiences of every human on this planet. I have deep expertise in AI (LLMs, context engineering, fine-tuning, memory, tool-use), low-code, no-code automation platforms, agentic automation, cloud infrastructure and services, storage virtualization, file systems and operating systems.I have led large 120+ member global teams at Microsoft, as also, driven small strategic mission teams. I am an early innovator in AI, specializing in applying AI to solve real world problems. I have successfully led projects from early start-ups to highly-profitable, thriving businesses with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and tens of millions of users. I have a proven track record of innovation with 50+ patents and pioneering application of Generative AI in products and services before Chat GPT put AI into the global consciousness. I am excited to engineer at the frontiers of AI, building systems that scale and teams that thrive. If you are solving hard challenges at the frontier of AI, that need strong engineering leadership, team building and future facing innovation, let\'s connect, ideate and build things together.
Experience
Partner Director of Engineering
Jan 2024 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master’s Degree, Computer Science
1999 — 2001
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
BE, Computer Engineering
1993 — 1997
Skills
- Storage
- Device Drivers
- File System Virtualization and Isolation
- Kernel
- Algorithms
- Kernel Debugging
- Object Oriented Design
- Windows Internals
- Agile Methodologies
- Storage Virtualization
- Computer Science
- Software Design
- File Systems
- X86 Assembly
- C
- Win32 Api
- Windbg
- C++
- Debugging
- Multithreading
- Distributed Systems
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Software Development
- Kernel Programming
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