Venkatesh Athipatala
Principal Group Engineering manager at Microsoft, Microsoft Commerce platform
- Role
- Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Venkatesh Athipatala
Engineering Manager with a passion to build and motivate highperforming engineering teams that achieve amazing results. Well recognized for strong leadership & project management abilities while leading cross-team projects in fast paced environments.
Experience
Principal Group Engineering Manager
May 2022 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Principal Engineering Leader | 12+ mission-critical cloud services | 50+ member engineering org | Powering customer onboarding, authorization, and lifecycle management across one of the world\'s largest cloud commerce platforms. Security & Identity - Own the authorization backbone for the entire commerce ecosystem — millions of access checks daily, 99.99% uptime - Reduced identity tenant footprint by 50% through security modernization — saving millions in infrastructure and operations costs - Replaced legacy privilege models with secure-by-default, least-privilege architectures Customer Onboarding & Lifecycle - Own end-to-end customer onboarding — account creation, subscription provisioning, product activation for millions - Own lifecycle enforcement for security violations, fraud, non-payment, and trade compliance at scale - Own subscription lifecycle management — creation through renewal to deletion at global scale Billing Accounts Platform & APIs - Own the billing accounts platform — commercial relationships, billing profiles, invoice sections, and RBAC across all customer segments - Own the APIs powering every billing surface — portals, ARM integrations, enterprise agreements, and partner channels - Built for availability-first — multi-region active-active, automated failover, 99.9%+ SLAs across public, government, and sovereign clouds Engineering Excellence & Team Building - Built a 50+ member engineering org from the ground up across disciplines and geographies - Grew founding engineers into senior leaders and people managers — every service has an owner, every engineer has a growth path - Drove 40% improvement in development velocity through AI-augmented engineering - Championing AI-first culture — built AI agents for incident management, led org-wide demos, and embedded AI into daily practices
Education
CBIT
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
2004 — 2007
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