Abhishek Kumar is a Principal Engineering Manager in Redmond with 20+ years of systems and software experience and a decade in senior leadership roles building planet-scale, low-latency infrastructure for Microsoft services. He leads global deployment orchestration that simultaneously optimizes thousands of platform payloads across millions of blades and VMs, maintaining five-nines availability for Azure, Bing, Xbox, Office and Exchange. A specialist in applied AI and distributed systems, he also brings deep computer vision expertise—particularly 3D depthmap reconstruction and 2D image processing—from prior work at Adobe where he shipped real-time 3D reconstruction and facial mesh/texturing pipelines. He pairs product-focused engineering with operational rigor, having driven hyper-scale backend APIs at Dynamics CRM and PowerApps that serve billions of daily calls. Known for bridging research-grade algorithms and production-grade cloud platforms, he combines an IIT Madras computer science foundation with hands-on delivery across security, rendering, and orchestration domains.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
CBSE Science (PCM) with Computer Science, CBSE Science (PCM) with Computer Science at Modern School
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Abhishek Kumar - Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft