Varun Jain

About Varun Jain

I am a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 15 years of experience building and leading scalable, secure, and mission‑critical platforms across cloud and edge computing. I bring deep technical expertise combined with strong people leadership, spanning Specialized Clouds, Azure, HPC, IoT, and cloud‑scale distributed systems. I thrive in highly collaborative, fast‑moving environments where engineering excellence and customer impact go hand in hand.Currently, I work in Azure Specialized Clouds, delivering capabilities for regulated and sovereign environments where security, reliability, and compliance are non‑negotiable.Previously, I was part of the Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) team, supporting AI and HPC workloads at cloud scale. In this role, I helped raise the bar on engineering standards and platform reliability across multiple teams.Earlier in my career at Microsoft, I worked on the Connected Vehicle Platform, enabling automotive and mobility scenarios. I led the network isolation feature to securely route customer traffic through private Azure networks and partnered closely with customers and ecosystem partners to design and integrate Microsoft’s in‑vehicle infotainment architecture. This work leveraged C++, JavaScript, Docker, Linux, edge computing, and Azure, with a strong emphasis on security, performance, and operational excellence.I also contributed to the service resiliency team, where I helped build an anomaly detection system and a fault‑injection framework for Azure Active Directory, strengthening reliability and failure preparedness at scale. I take pride in building resilient systems and high‑performing teams that deliver lasting customer and business impact.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Feb 2026 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Azure Specialized Clouds

Education

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  All India Senior School Certificate Examination

  2004

• The University of Texas at Austin

  MS, Computer Science

  2009 — 2011

• Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

  B-Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• C
• C++
• Java
• Sql
• C#
• Actionscript
• Xml
• Php
• Windows
• Unix
• Git
• Eclipse
• Intellij Idea
• Flex
• Flash
• Microsoft Office
• Visual Studio
• Wordnet
• Opengl
• Jbpm
• Spring
• Html
• Seqan
• Tekkotsu
• Design Patterns
• Javascript
• Software Development
• Web Applications
• Databases
• Time Series
• Time Series Analysis
• Microsoft Azure
• Data Structures
• Algorithms
• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Web Services
• Data Mining
• Programming