Vivek D.

About Vivek D.

20+ years of diverse and versatile career graph, that goes across a) 8+ years of experience in Cloud and AI with Microsoft Azure and AWS, b) 8 years @ Cisco Operations, Customer Experience and IT, c) 8 years of Supply Chain experience with Management Consulting (Accenture) and OEMs (Ford and Suzuki).Achievements:1. Led the launch of Microsoft 1st gen AI accelerator (Maia100), on-boarded Azure OpenAI production traffic on Maia.2. Led the deployment and launch of AMD\'s MI300x VMs in Azure, this enables hosting internal (1p) and external (3p) customer production traffic. 1p -(Azure OpenAI, Microsoft AI, Microsoft Research, M365, Bing), 3p (OpenAI, other HPC/AI customers).3. Launched Amazon\'s time sync service that delivered micro-second accuracy and led the Company goal to deliver supply chain capacity for AWS Graviton in the US.4. Led the development and global deployment of specialized Compute offerings (SAP, VMware, OpenAI, Government, Skytap, Nutanix) that enabled customers to move to Azure, unlocked $5B TAM.5. Launched Cisco\'s IAM and entitlement management service, that helped Cisco transform from a Hardware to a Subscription based business model, drove subscription and sw revenue to >90%.

Experience

1. Principal Tpm Azure Hpc Ai

   Microsoft

   Oct 2023 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   I work in the Engineering group (EG) that owns Product and Engineering of SKUs that caters to HPC and AI customers (OpenAI, other 3p customers, internal inferencing and training workloads)- Our team owns building and managing the HPC & AI Compute infrastructure and GPU VM Platform and GPU VM Family in Azure for Nvidia, AMD GPUs, and Maia (our in-house accelerator)- Led the execution of launching Microsoft\'s 1st gen, AI Accelerator, catered to Azure OpenAI inference workloads, enabling Microsoft to build the end to end AI infrastructure system stack in-house- Led the deployment and execution of AMD\'s MI300X VM Family in Azure, catered to 1p and 3p customers, this enabled Microsoft to have 2nd source to NVIDIA family of GPUs and expanded the GPU VM offerings- Leading Microsoft’s AI/GPU family next gen Product roadmap and execution, managing GPU fleet operations.

Education

• Annamalai University

  B.E., Electrical & Electronics

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Manufacturing Operations Management
• Cloud Applications
• Order Fulfillment
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Acquisition Integration
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Project Management
• Management Consulting
• Strategic Partner Relationship Management
• Purchasing Negotiation
• Procurement
• Service Delivery Management
• Vendor Management
• Software Licensing Management
• Supply Chain Operations
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Product Management
• Program Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Six Sigma