Summary
Annaji Ganti is a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft with 7 years of focused experience building developer tools, agent platforms, and enterprise-scale API services from Redmond. He has driven high-impact PaaS and serverless initiatives—leading Azure API Center, API Hub, and Model Context Protocol work that underpin Copilot, Power Platform, and Azure AI Foundry integrations. Known for bridging product and platform, he has launched public previews and GA features (Static Web Apps, API Connections, Foundry tools) while managing distributed, multilingual engineering teams. His background spans deep platform engineering, CI/ALM transformation, and developer experience improvements across Dynamics, Power Platform, and Azure. Notably, he combines hands-on engineering with program-level ownership—hiring and scaling teams in India and globally and embedding governance, telemetry, and security into API/connectivity ecosystems. He holds advanced computer science degrees and has a history of applying research-minded solutions (ML-assisted CI tooling and expression languages) to real-world developer productivity problems.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropout and Doctoral Candidate), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Dropout and Doctoral Candidate), Computer Science at North Dakota State University
English, Hindi, Telugu