Shikhar Sharma

About Shikhar Sharma

Driving the infrastructure foundation for Microsoft\'s key applications – Edge, Bing, and Microsoft Copilot – as a Platform Product Manager. At the heart of Microsoft, I\'m focused on delivering a robust Platform as a Service (PaaS) that provides the secure, compliant, and scalable environment where containerized applications thrive. Leveraging over 13 years of experience as a results-oriented Lead Product Manager across diverse industries (including finance, education, and telecommunications), I bring a proven track record of driving innovative product development and delivering strategic solutions that exceed business objectives. My passion lies in abstracting complexity, ensuring resource availability, and building the routing and security backbone that empowers our partner teams to innovate rapidly and achieve measurable outcomes.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Product Manager - Microsoft Ai Platforms

   Microsoft

   Sep 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Led the strategic transformation of Bing and Microsoft AI services (Ads, Maps, Copilot) by driving Kubernetes adoption across 15 global regions—enabling a scalable, cost-efficient, and resilient infrastructure platform.• Architected Falcon Fleet’s multi-tiered control structure (Uber Control Clusters → Control Clusters → Standard Clusters), supporting federated workloads with seamless orchestration and high availability.• Scaled Falcon Fleet infrastructure to over 1M cores globally, supporting 1.2M+ QPS with latency parity between Pods and VMs for high-throughput, low-latency workloads across Bing Search, Copilot, Ads, MSN, and internal platforms.• Accelerated Falcon Fleet’s growth by leading partner onboarding and influencing stakeholder adoption—resulting in a 30% increase in active partners within 6 months.• Spearheaded CDR automation for ephemeral clusters, driving full capacity utilization and cost efficiency at scale—while ensuring safe upgrades and seamless resource recycling.• Defined namespace-level quotas and designed Quota Buckets integrated with Fleet APIs to enable precise, scalable capacity management and federated workload scheduling—driving platform stability, efficient resource allocation, faster partner onboarding, and improved deployment reliability.• Led the development of Falcon Fleet Capacity Delivery Automation, transforming manual quota management into a fully automated, API-driven system—integrated with CRS for asynchronous delivery and reclaim across partner namespaces.• Advocated for Linux/Windows parity to support legacy system migrations and enable hyper-packing of latency-sensitive workloads without compromising performance.

Education

• Rajasthan Technical University, Kota

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineeering

  2007 — 2011

• Emmanuel Mission School

  12th, Mathematics

  2006 — 2007

• Alliance University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Analytics

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Telecommunications Billing
• Billing Systems
• Order Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Billing Process
• Integration Testing
• Software Installation
• Ccp
• Functional Testing
• Requirement Specifications
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Software Implementation
• System Testing
• Linux