Vinod Kurpad
Product Manager, Azure AI at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVinod Kurpad is a Product Manager at Microsoft focused on making enterprise content more actionable by building at the intersection of AI and search, with 11 years of experience in cloud and product roles. He combines hands-on engineering chops—contributing to Azure Cognitive Search samples and power-skills repos that add vision, form recognition, PII redaction, and image-similarity capabilities—with product leadership driving Azure AI features. His background spans cloud strategy, solutions architecture, and digital marketing, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and customer-centric product instincts. Based in Redmond, he leverages an MBA in strategy and marketing alongside a Computer Science degree to translate complex AI capabilities into practical, deployable skills for enterprise search.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Strategic Management, MBA, Strategic Management at University of MinnesotaBengaluru UniversityMBA, Marketing, Strategy, MBA, Marketing, Strategy at University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management
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Github Skills (21)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
image-processing10
restful-api10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
computer-vision10
azure10
rest-api10
azure-cognitive-search10
azure-blob-storage8
machine-learning8
base64-encoding8
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/azure-search-power-skills
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
A collection of useful functions to be deployed as custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 34 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Vinod's contributions involve implementing and modifying code related to custom skills for Azure Cognitive Search, specifically focusing on form recognition, image similarity search, and potentially other vision-related tasks. They introduced new skills using the v3 API for analyzing documents, and also contributed to the development of image similarity search functionality. Code changes span multiple areas, with a clear emphasis on the vision, and form recognition capabilities of the project.
cognitiveazure-cognitive-searchdeployedazurecognitive-search
Azure-Samples/azure-search-python-samples
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Azure Search Python sample code
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
Contributions summary:Vinod contributed to an Azure Cognitive Search sample repository. Their work focused on modifying and enhancing the image processing functionality within the project. This included implementing PII redaction and integrating a merge skill. The changes demonstrate a focus on custom skill development and utilizing Azure Cognitive Services for data enrichment and image manipulation.
pythonmlazure-machine-learningazureazure-search
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