Vamsi Panchagnula
Senior Director, Silicon Engineering at Microsoft
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVamsi Panchagnula is a Silicon Engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and bringing up high-performance ASICs and leading silicon teams, now serving as Senior Director at Microsoft after Fungible's acquisition. He combines deep RTL/architecture expertise—from QoS TrafficManager subsystems to MIMO OFDM basebands—with cloud and developer tooling experience, contributing to well-known open-source projects like Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell to improve web app deployments and automation. Vamsi is fluent across hardware-software boundaries, driving silicon debug and customer support while also implementing monitoring and UX improvements for Azure Functions. Based in San Jose, he pairs an IIT Madras B.Tech and Cornell ECE master's with a track record of shipping production silicon and cloud integrations, and is notable for moving seamlessly between low-level silicon details and high-level DevOps/CI/CD solutions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMasters, ECE, Masters, ECE at Cornell University
Github Skills (38)
cmd10
api-rest10
javascript10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
typescript10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
azure-powershell10
typescript-types10
powershell10
rest-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-cli
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
Azure Command-Line Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:266 reviews, 74 commits, 128 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vamsi primarily contributed to the Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) by implementing features related to web app and function app deployment, focusing on zip deployments and HTTPS configurations. Their work involved modifying code to include features like zip deployment and enabling HTTPS-only configurations. The contributions extended to enhancing the functionality of the CLI with support for PowerShell on Linux function apps, which suggests also a responsibility for the underlying infrastructure and CI/CD of the project.
command-line-interfacecloudazurecommand-lineazure-cli
Azure/azure-functions-ux
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Azure Functions UX
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 57 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Vamsi significantly contributed to the Azure Functions UX project by implementing and integrating monitoring features into the dashboard. They added new components for app monitoring, consumption charts, and instance counts, updating the application's template and style sheets. Their work involved modifying various components, including the top-bar, dashboard, and app-monitoring components, to facilitate the display of function app performance metrics. Furthermore, they refactored and optimized the codebase, ensuring the monitoring features integrated smoothly with the existing UX framework.
azure-functionsazure
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