Engineering Manager Tech Lead

SHALINI JOSHI

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OBJECTIVE: A challenging S/W Engineering Manager role that leverages my extensive technical leadership and fosters growth to enhance business outcomes.

SKILLS:

Nearly 20 years of software development, including bootstrapping and delivering v0 products.

Recognized for compassion, collaboration, and detail orientation both as a technical leader and manager.

8 years as Dev Manager and 7 years as Tech Lead on complex, scalable projects.

Extensive experience with Azure Storage, Windows Client, and Windows UX platforms.

Managed multiple teams at Azure Storage, currently overseeing combined 21 engineers incl. 3 managers across 3 regions.

Developed APIs and platforms used by customers like Microsoft Teams, Samsung (Phone Link), and more.

Founding board member of the Women Engineers ERG on the Windows Developer Platform division.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Principal SWE Manager – Azure Core Storage Control Plane (2023 – Present)

Manage a direct team of 13 developers and supervise 3 SWE managers across various locations, with a total team size of approximately 21 engineers.

Manage SRP management plane team and backend microservices for Azure Storage

Principal SWE Manager – Azure Storage Mover, Storage Data Management (2021 – 2023)

Secured funding, established and led a key data migration service team from inception through release, including operational readiness and customer adoption phases.

Led customer case study working together w/ Kraft Foods and Infosys to facilitate the first customer migration using this service.

Launched "Azure Storage Mover," enabling migration of ~600-800TBs of data into Azure for Fortune 50 companies.

Senior SWE Manager – Windows Developer Ecosystem Platform (2017 – 2021)

Managed a team of 5 to deliver AdaptiveCards SDKs for partners like Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex etc.

Advocated for career growth for the team, driving accessibility features, and formalizing release strategies.

Senior SWE Tech Lead – Windows Developer Ecosystem Platform (2015 – 2017)

Key role and primary point of contact in shipping the Samsung YourPhone/PhoneLink integration.

Led the "Gladiator" livesite effort for troubleshooting and enhancing documentation.

Senior SWE Tech Lead – Android Streaming Cloud Services (2014 – 2015)

Worked on Android Streaming Management Cloud Service for Windows Phone customers

Redesigned Marketplace APK Ingestion cloud service to a modular 3-tier architecture.

SWE2, Senior SWE – Azure Content Delivery Network Team (2011 – 2014)

Led a team to own and ship v1 of an Azure hosted WCF REST service.

Excelled in troubleshooting, mitigation of livesite issues and recognized by my management and peers for it.

SDET – Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking Group (2005 – 2011)

Owned BranchCache Server-side Component and Peer Channel(NetPeerTcpBinding) in WCF.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Co-founded WomenOfDEP board, organized goals for ~80 women engineers. Delivered a talk on Annual Review/Connect writing for the group.

Received Microsoft's Gold Star award for BranchCache<-> Http integrations and collaborations

Presented and published a paper at the 2007 Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference – “Tester's role in customer interaction beyond release.”

EDUCATION

Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, New York MS in Computer Science (Network Systems), GPA 3.5/4 Dec. ‘04

Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur University, India B.S. in Computer Science, Average 81% (Honors) May 2003

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