Neela Kolli
Sr. Director - OCI at Oracle
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeela Kolli is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 20+ years building hyperscale cloud infrastructure, storage, and AI-enabled platforms across Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, and LSI. She has led and scaled 100+ person global organizations, owning multi-year platform strategy, P&L, and go-to-market execution for mission-critical firmware, distributed services, and data protection products. Her technical breadth spans hardware-software co-design, high-TPS distributed systems, and AI/ML training and inference platforms, with a track record of improving fleet reliability through telemetry and operational tooling. Neela has repeatedly taken products from concept to global launch—defining positioning, pricing, and partner ecosystems—while driving multi-million-dollar business growth. A pragmatic operator, she combines deep engineering roots (firmware, device drivers, RAID/storage systems) with an MBA-backed strategic lens to align product roadmaps to customer and business outcomes. Based in the United States, she blends enterprise-scale execution with hands-on technical credibility that anchors cross-regional teams and OEM partnerships.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, General Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, General Management at Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of BusinessMaster of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Applications, Master of Computer Applications - MCA, Computer Applications at Anna University Chennai
English, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (3)
azure8
microsoft-azure8
microsoft5
Github contributions (2)
nkolli1/azure-content
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
microsoftcentermicrosoft-azureazure
Azure/azure-content
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
microsoftcentermicrosoft-azureazure
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