Hemant Mahawar
Lead Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHemant Mahawar is a seasoned product leader with 11+ years building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently serving as Lead Principal Product Manager for Microsoft’s M365 micro-services platform in Bellevue. He led the AKS-based platform to grow capacity 300x (from 10K to 3M cores), owns platform security and compliance, and has doubled and distributed his PM organization across the US, China, and Brazil. Prior roles span deep technical program and product work on PowerShell, Azure Cloud Shell, and configuration management—where he has both shipped features and contributed code and build automation to the open-source PowerShell ecosystem. Hemant combines hands-on engineering experience (build/release automation and CI/test improvements in prominent repos like PowerShell and PowerShell-Docs) with strategic product design, including billing, onboarding, and standardized safe-deployment flows. He holds advanced CS degrees from Texas A&M and an electrical engineering undergraduate degree from IIT Bombay, bringing research rigor to large-scale operational execution. Notably, his background blends shipping developer tools and platform-grade security/compliance practices, making him fluent across developer experience, operations, and governance.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanPh.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (17)
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cicd10
release-management10
automation10
powershell10
build-tools10
automations10
scripting9
testing9
packaging9
github8
git8
devops7
command-line7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MicrosoftDocs/PowerShell-Docs
Dec 2015 - Jan 2019
The official PowerShell documentation sources
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:297 commits, 439 PRs, 326 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Hemant primarily focused on improving the build and testing processes within the PowerShell documentation repository. Their contributions involved modifying the `appveyor.ps1` script to handle errors, add options for skipping certain steps, and incorporate comments to improve readability. They also made changes to the Pester test files and overall build pipeline. Additionally, the user worked on merging code changes, fixing metadata rendering issues, and addressing documentation examples.
powershell-documentationopenxmldocumentation-generatorpowershellmicrosoft
PowerShell/PowerShell
Jun 2016 - May 2019
PowerShell for every system!
Role in this project:Automation Engineer
Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 84 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hemant contributed to the build process and packaging of the PowerShell project. They focused on modifying build scripts to incorporate Windows server names in package builds and corrected formatting issues. Additionally, the user added a function to get the semantic version of a package and made modifications to the creation of zip, MSI, and AppX packages. The contributions suggest a focus on automating the build and release processes.
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