Srikumar Sankaran

About Srikumar Sankaran

Experienced technology leader with strengths in building highly successful consumer, enterprise products, building efficient orgs, seeding innovative ideas and translating them into successful products. Proven experience in leading, inspiring brilliant engineers to deliver world class products. Hands on and delivery oriented management style.

Experience

1. Partner Group Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Jun 2017 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Leading the mobile charter for Microsoft Teams. Built and leading the engineering teams that are responsible for the Android, iOS Teams clients, platform efforts, adaptation for device variants, emerging market initiatives and engineering systems.Prior to this, led the growth initiatives for Skype in emerging markets. Created SkypeLite, a lighter version of Skype on mobile, which is optimized for emerging market network conditions and common device specifications. It has crossed 10M installs and was one of the highly rated Skype clients. Spearheaded multiple growth initiatives like building social loops around SMS insights, guest calling, content integration in Skype.

Education

• St. Xavier's College

  Bachelor's degree, Mathematics

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  MCA

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Hadoop
• Mapreduce
• Nosql
• Python
• Distributed Systems
• Multimedia
• Scalability
• High Availability
• Web Crawling
• Rapid Prototyping
• C++
• Web Services
• C
• Java
• Algorithms
• Analytics
• Ruby on Rails
• Ios Development
• Big Data
• E-Commerce
• Android