Summary
Aswin Rajamannar is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with 14 years of experience building resilient, high-performance distributed systems at scale, currently leading engineering efforts in Greater Seattle for Microsoft. He has driven major improvements in Azure VM and container pre-provisioning—delivering dramatic latency reductions (up to 90% for containers and 50% for save-restore) and raising availability and hit rates to enterprise-grade levels. A hands-on leader, he blends technical ownership (inventing save-and-restore hypervisor approaches and earning patents) with people development, using a model-coach-care approach to grow teams. He is skilled at cross-service collaboration, having coordinated v-teams across 10+ services to deliver complex platform features that materially reduced cost and improved reliability. Notably, his work has turned prototype innovations into production features that cut deployment times from minutes to under 30 seconds while preserving 99.99%+ reliability.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy