Yasar Ayhan Kaya
Sr Director, TPM | Cloud Infra & Datacenter Power Efficiency | AI/ML | Azure | Ex-Meta, Amazon
- Role
- Senior Director, Technical Program Management Azure Datacenter Power & Capacity Efficiency at Microsoft
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yasar Ayhan Kaya
Senior Director of Technical Program Management with 18+ years focused on cloud infrastructure, capacity planning, and power efficiency. Currently leading Microsoft\'s Azure Datacenter Power Efficiency initiatives, saving approximately $2 billion in infrastructure build costs. My team\'s work has doubled power efficiency gains despite rapidly increasing demand driven by Microsoft\'s partnership with OpenAI.Previously, at Meta, I managed Cloud Efficiency TPMs, achieving a 10% improvement in CPU-bound resource utilization across Meta\'s infrastructure. At Amazon, I built and led the product management team behind the forecasting systems that predict demand for every item sold on Amazon.com, significantly reducing forecast overrides and increasing forecast accuracy.I lead teams known for high performance, cross-functional effectiveness, and delivering tangible financial and operational impacts.Interests beyond work include building autonomous robots with ChatGPT, developing ML models for financial forecasting, Argentine Tango, and maintaining a complex IoT-managed reef aquarium.
Experience
Senior Director, Technical Program Management Azure Datacenter Power & Capacity Efficiency
Jan 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Define and lead technical execution strategy for portfolio of programs that are focused on datacenter resource utilization efficiency across Azure’s global infrastructure, saved ~2 billion dollars in datacenter build costs.
Education
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
BA, Economics
Western Kentucky University
MBA, Finance
Skills
- Cpfr
- Product Management
- Report Writing
- Strategy
- Strategic Planning
- Replenishment
- Demand Forecasting
- Demand Planning
- Analytics
- Focus Groups
- Segmentation
- Leadership
- Project Planning
- Supply Chain
- Cognos
- Analysis
- Retail
- Bias for Action
- Process Improvement
- Apparel
- Logility
- Management
- Forecasting
- Requirements Gathering
- Consumer Products
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Planning
- Inventory Management
- Spss
- Vba Excel
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