Summary
Hari Sudan is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years at Microsoft, currently VP Engineering & Distinguished Engineer heading end-to-end engineering, product strategy, P&L, and site reliability for Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB. He has deep expertise in distributed databases and running internet-scale services, driving features like elasticity, autoscale, active-active high availability, and AI semantic search that support customers such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Teams, and Walmart. Hari leads a geographically distributed organization of ~400 engineers and combines hands-on systems experience from SQL Server and Azure SQL DB with a strong customer-obsessed product mindset. He is known for solving hard technical problems while building collaborative, psychologically safe teams that deliver five-nines SLAs at massive scale. Trained at BITS Pilani and the University of Washington, he brings both research internship experience in high-performance and storage systems and practical delivery of PaaS databases used by Fortune 500s.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English