About

Vinayak Padiyar is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 12 years of relevant experience. He is a leader with a strong blend of engineering and people management experience. Vinayak has experience building high-performance teams from the ground up, architecting, implementing, and scaling several highly available global services within Azure and AWS. In terms of leadership, Vinayak has proven experience in managing with empathy, listening, hiring, team building, project management, program management, technical leadership, stakeholder communication, mentorship, coaching, and career development. His technical expertise includes network architecture, software architecture, system architecture, cloud automation, distributed systems, Python, Go, Bash, Azure, AWS, Linux, Unix, Infra As Code, ARM, Bicep, Vagrant, C#, C++, C, Java, Ansible, BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, performance optimizations, eBPF, data center design, virtual networking, SDN, VNET, VPC, Direct Connect, Express Route, supercomputing, Azure NetApp Files, Azure VMWare Service, InfiniBand, Arista, Cisco, and Juniper. Currently, Vinayak leads a team at Microsoft that is responsible for building and operating multiple products within Azure. He has built a team in India from the ground up that can deliver high-quality work consistently. Vinayak has empowered the team to make engineering decisions by creating clarity around the feature roadmap and building consensus on it with peer teams. He has also helped the team put together an on-call rotation and regular operational reviews to iterate and improve. In his past roles at Microsoft, Vinayak served as a tech lead for Azure NetApp files product line and telemetry migration. He also worked at Amazon as a network automation engineer, where he provided tooling for network and systems reliability engineering teams within the company. Vinayak holds a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the State University of New York and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Sapthagiri College of Engineering. He is skilled in senior software engineering, Azure, AWS, test, Ansible, infra, Python, and Java.