Summary
Lavanya Kasarabada is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft with over 16 years of experience translating distributed systems and storage engineering into customer-facing product strategies. Based in Redmond, she progressed from software engineer roles into program and product leadership within Azure Storage, blending deep technical fluency with cross-team program execution. She has a strong academic foundation with a BE from Bangalore University and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UT Dallas, which informs her system-level thinking. Known for shipping scalable cloud storage features, she navigates complex trade-offs between reliability, performance, and operational cost. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic connector who turns engineering complexity into clear product roadmaps and measurable outcomes. Quietly, her career shows a consistent pattern of evolving from hands-on development to influencing platform-wide storage strategies.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bengaluru University