Sebastian Kohlmeier

About Sebastian Kohlmeier

I\'m a driven and motivated software development and technology management professional with 15+ years of relevant business and technical experience who enjoys solving real-world problems and inventing new solutions for customers. My key skills include- Team builder and people manager (including Software Engineers and PMs)- Overseeing projects using full software life-cycle management with agile software development methodologies (Scrum & Kanban)- Software architecture and design including big data processing (Hadoop/EMR), high availability low-latency distributed services and UI development- Program and product management including development of product strategy/vision and end-to-end project execution across multiple organizations and external partners- Vendor selection and management including contract negotiation- Extensive international business experience- Fluent in multiple languages including German and Spanish

Experience

1. Principal Pm Manager

   Microsoft

   Mar 2021 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   As the product lead for Azure AI Foundry Observability and head of Product for Microsoft\'s Experimentation Platform (part of Microsoft\'s AI Platform) I manage a team of Product Managers responsible for developing and scaling Microsoft\'s A/B testing platform and the evaluation and monitoring capabilities for AI applications and Agents in Azure AI Foundry- A/B testing platform is used across the company by Microsoft product teams (including Bing, Office, Azure, xBox, etc.) to run of trustworthy controlled online A/B experiments per month for safe velocity and to measure the impact of key product initiatives (e.g, LLM and AI-powered products)- Azure AI Foundry observability capabilities are provided as APIs/SDKs and integrated into the Azure Foundry Portal to power development workflows, monitoring and alerting and continuous optimization- Areas of ownership include product experience (covering experiment management, metrics and experiment analysis, client and server-side tracing, offline and online evaluation and monitoring and alerting) and back-end components (compute pipeline, evaluation system).

Education

• Universidad Católica del Uruguay 'Dámaso Antonio Larranaga'​

  International Business, Spanish

  2005 — 2005

• Western Washington University

  BA International Business, BA Spanish

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Sql
• Software/Web Project Management
• International Business Strategy
• Project Management
• E-Commerce
• Vendor Management
• Operational Excellence
• Management
• Supplier Evaluation
• Business Development
• Cloud Computing
• Databases
• Product Management
• Software Development
• Team Management
• Web Analytics
• Market Research
• Mobile Devices
• International Sales
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Scrum