Nana Lakshmanan
Vice President, Software Engineering & Data Hall Design
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNana Lakshmanan is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 17 years of experience building scalable, highly available cloud and infrastructure platforms across Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle. Currently VP of Software Engineering at Oracle, he leads global teams delivering automation and datacenter platforms that enable AI-ready capacity and accelerate cloud growth. Previously he defined AI-driven automation and hyperscale operations at AWS and founded Microsoft’s Desired State Configuration team, influencing enterprise automation and Azure’s operational foundation. Known for recruiting and mentoring technical leaders—including growing principals and women engineers—he builds teams grounded in trust, transparency, and accountability. Technically hands-on, he combines deep expertise in distributed, multi-tenant systems, high-performance concurrency, and security with a track record of launching customer-facing services and open source communities. Based in Redmond, he pairs a pragmatic, experiment-driven approach with a commitment to giving back and learning from failures.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceB.E Electronics & Communication Engineering, B.E Electronics & Communication Engineering at University of Madras
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Github Skills (37)
transformers10
language-model10
chatgpt10
windows10
linux10
semantic-search10
prompt-engineering10
openai10
ai10
generative-ai10
command-line10
powershell10
netcore10
azure10
macos10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nanalakshmanan/PythonUtilities
Mar 2017 - May 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 2 months
awslabs/aws-systems-manager
Oct 2017 - May 2018
Artifacts for use with AWS Systems Manager
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
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