About

Manish Sharma is a highly experienced Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft, with over 15 years of experience in leadership and management. He is a strategic thinker with a proven track record of successfully managing multiple products and teams across different geographies. Manish is an expert in product roadmap and strategy discussions, product development, and customer escalations. He has a strong engineering background and is accountable for requirements breakdown, effort estimation, release planning, risk mitigation, and delivery. Manish is an excellent people manager and has a talent for mentoring and growing talent pools. He has experience in setting up teams from scratch and contractor augmentation. He is also skilled in creating product evangelists and fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. Manish's engineering expertise includes low-level design discussions, design reviews, cloud-ready data protection solutions for virtualized environments, storage virtualization, Linux endpoint security solutions, system programming, and Linux internals. He has experience in SCSI device drivers, MPIO FC-SCSI interfacing, and Libpthread. Before joining Microsoft, Manish worked as a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Dell, where he developed data protection and data management solutions for file system data and Microsoft technologies/applications. He also worked as a Software Engineering Manager at Intel, where he managed whitelisting security solutions on Unix-based enterprise machines and fixed-function devices. Manish holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from the University of Rajasthan and a BSc in Computers from Jai Narain Vyas University. He also completed a Graduate Experiential Leadership Program in Leadership and Management from IIM. Overall, Manish is a results-driven leader with a passion for innovation and excellence. He has a proven track record of managing teams and delivering successful products, and he is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow and develop his skills.