Kartik Kanakasabesan is a product leader with nine years in senior roles across Microsoft, Atlassian, and now Tanium, specializing in cloud services, big data, developer platforms, and information protection. He combines deep technical fluency with go-to-market and sales experience, repeatedly driving rapid revenue growth and shortening sales cycles through data-driven marketing and innovative compensation and inside-sales models. At IBM he scaled open-source communities and delivered high-velocity web sales channels, and at Microsoft he led developer tooling and information protection product strategies that balanced security, collaboration, and low-code productivity. Known for turning complex enterprise requirements into pragmatic SaaS and PaaS offerings, he favors measurable outcomes—improving delivery quality and user experience while enabling teams with Agile and unified processes. Based in Redmond, he’s passionate about AI security and developer ecosystems, bridging technical product strategy with commercial impact in regulated and cloud-native environments.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Contributions:5 releases, 54 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
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Kartik Kanakasabesan - Director Of Product Management at Tanium