Summary
Vikram Desai is a seasoned technical product manager and former software engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building IaaS, storage, and cloud-native systems across companies like Microsoft Azure, HPE, Datera, Akamai, Cisco, and Oracle. He now leads Azure Core efforts to enable ML-driven automated online repair and self-healing workflows that materially improve resilience and operational continuity for cloud infrastructure. Vikram has repeatedly taken complex NPIs from concept to production—most recently driving a scale-out fast-object storage appliance at HPE across 150+ engineers and cutting delivery timelines through simulation and process innovations. His background as a generalist developer on cloud storage and Elastic Data Fabric gives him a rare ability to bridge low-level systems engineering with product strategy and partner enablement, having delivered revenue-driving OEM integrations and cloud backup features. Trained in computer networks (UMass Amherst) with product certification from Stanford GSB, he combines rigorous technical depth with pragmatic program leadership to tame large-scale distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at SJCE,Mysore
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Certification, Product Management, A+, Certification, Product Management, A+ at Stanford University
Hindi, Kannada, English