Summary
Vinay Sahu is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with a decade of experience building and leading teams to deliver high-performance, reliable systems. He progressed through individual contributor and leadership roles at Microsoft after senior engineering positions at Salesforce, Naukri.com, Times Internet, and CA Technologies, bringing deep hands-on expertise in backend services, real-time systems, and full-stack development. Vinay blends technical rigor—spanning Java, Spring Boot, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Node.js and Angular—with people-first management, coaching engineers to reach their potential and scaling teams across complex product domains. He has a track record of designing monitoring and analytics tooling and has played a significant role in hiring and technical training, having interviewed 150+ candidates and served as an internal trainer. Based in Noida, he augments his engineering background with management fundamentals from Harvard Business School, enabling him to translate strategic goals into executable roadmaps.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU), Kanpur
Management Essentials, Management Essentials at Harvard Business School
English