About

Prashanth N N is a highly skilled Program Manager 2 at Microsoft with over 8 years of relevant experience in the software development industry. He is currently based in Bangalore, India and has been with Microsoft since February 2022. Prashanth works closely with engineering teams to deliver solutions and new capabilities for customers' most mission-critical deployments. He is a customer-focused individual who relentlessly champions and advocates for their needs, representing their issues to engineering teams. Prashanth is an engineer at heart and applies his engineering mindset to eliminate top issues impacting customer experience across large and strategic sets of customers. He is a member of the product engineering team and uses his engineering skills to improve products and services based on customer feedback and insights gained while supporting them. He also works on critical, highly complex customer scenarios that span across multiple services. Prior to his current role, Prashanth held the position of Development Team Lead at Microsoft from July 2014 to September 2018 and then again from July 2020 to February 2022. During this time, he was responsible for leading software development teams and delivering multiple Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations projects. He delivered high-quality software design and architecture using clean and efficient code that resulted in high customer satisfaction and repeat contracts. Prashanth also established processes for CI/CD using Azure DevOps, facilitating more reliable and streamlined software deployment cycles. From September 2018 to July 2020, Prashanth worked as a Technical Architect at Microsoft in Seattle, USA. He translated customer's business needs into technical solutions in a hybrid Technical Consulting and Software Engineering model, helping customers transition from legacy systems to robust and dynamic modern cloud-first systems. He proposed innovative technical solutions and POCs by cross-collaborating with multiple teams to assist critical decision-making processes in dynamic fast-paced environments. Prashanth holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from B.M.S. College of Engineering, which he completed in 2014. He also completed his schooling from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in 2010. Prashanth's technical skills include Senior Software Engineer, CI/CD, DevOps, Azure, and Software Engineer.