Bala Venkataraman
Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBala Venkataraman is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft with over two decades of cross-functional experience building product-led solutions from finance systems to Azure ML integrations. He currently owns Spark-based integrations for Azure Machine Learning (Databricks, Synapse), combining deep technical ownership with product strategy and customer engagement. Bala has repeatedly shifted between people leadership and individual contributor roles to stay close to implementation details and accelerate impact, most notably moving from device driver pipelines in Windows to big-data ML integrations. His background spans finance platforms, partner-facing transaction products, and field sales early in his career—giving him a rare blend of technical, operational and customer empathy. Based in Bellevue, WA, he excels at aligning complex, interdependent teams around pragmatic roadmaps that deliver measurable business value.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, B.Tech at National Institute of Technology KurukshetraII PUC, II PUC at M E S CollegeSSLC, SSLC at Sri Vidya Mandir High School
English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu
Github Skills (22)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
balapv/foundry-samples
May 2025 - Jun 2026
Embedded samples in Azure AI Foundry docs
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
balapv/PCABootcamp
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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