Pankaj Garg
Corporate Vice President
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorPankaj Garg is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft with over two decades of systems and cloud engineering experience and 11 years in senior Azure leadership roles, where he has driven product and engineering vision for Hybrid Connectivity, Application Delivery, Virtual Network Functions, and Security services. An entrepreneurially minded engineering leader, he has launched multiple Azure services that advanced Azure’s market position and revenue while building high-performing, diverse teams and mentoring engineers. He blends deep technical roots from Hyper-V and network tooling with strategic product leadership, overseeing services like ExpressRoute, VPN, Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, and Azure Firewall. Active in open-source networking tooling, he contributed substantial backend enhancements to microsoft/ethr—improving TCP bandwidth testing, IPv6 trace support, and performance tuning—which reflects his hands-on approach to network measurement and performance. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is known for turning grassroots innovation into scalable cloud offerings and for aligning engineering execution with clear business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
go10
icmp10
tcp10
concurrency9
ipv69
udp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/ethr
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Ethr is a Comprehensive Network Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP & ICMP.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Pankaj significantly enhanced the `ethr` tool by implementing features related to TCP bandwidth testing, including reverse mode functionality. They added timestamps to log messages, handled timer delays, and optimized performance using `GOMAXPROCS`. Moreover, the user introduced options to disable per-connection statistics and synchronized timers between client and server for more accurate results, and added support for ICMP based functionality. Additionally, the user worked on adding IPv6 support for the trace route functionality.
networking4gbandwidthicmpmeasurement
ipankajg/crashdoctor
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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