Senior Tech PM · Microsoft Azure

SahilBhalla

I work on the Azure Compute Control Plane @ Microsoft. Ex-AWS, Salesforce, Dell. Software engineer turned PM, and I still think in systems, POCs and MVPs. Explorer everywhere else.

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ABOUT

Engineer at heart,
PM by craft.

10+
years across software engineering & technical product management

I'm a Senior Technical PM in the Azure Core Compute organization, where I own concurrency for the VM creation lifecycle at scale — making sure every component of the Azure Compute Control Plane works together seamlessly.

Before product, I spent eight years as a software engineer: big-data dashboards at Dell, the A/B testing platform at Salesforce, and the EMR on EKS platform at AWS. That background is my superpower as a PM — I prototype fast, reason from first principles, and never ask a team to build something I couldn't sketch myself.

EXPERIENCE

Where I've worked

DEC 2025 — PRESENT
Senior Tech PM
Microsoft · Azure Core Compute · Redmond, WA
  • Own concurrency for the VM creation lifecycle at scale across the Azure Compute Control Plane.
MAY 2024 — DEC 2025
Tech PM 2
Microsoft · Redmond, WA
JUN 2021 — MAY 2024
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, WA
  • Contributed to the EMR on EKS platform — Docker containers, Kubernetes and Spark jobs to lift platform efficiency and performance.
JUN 2020 — AUG 2020
Software Engineering Intern
Salesforce
  • Migrated the A/B testing application to Docker & Kubernetes, serving email traffic of 6B+ emails a month; built Splunk dashboards and automation tests for Marketing Cloud.
JUL 2016 — JUN 2019
Software Engineer 2 → Software Engineer 1
Dell Technologies · Bangalore, India
  • Built the Dell Black Friday sales dashboard and big-data dashboards on Hadoop for digital order management.
  • Shipped a real-time order-journey dashboard tracking stuck orders — helped resolve holds worth $3M; optimized platform logging efficiency by 97%.
SKILLS

What I bring

PRODUCT

Project Management Program Management Product Management Communication

ENGINEERING

Distributed Systems Virtualization Cloud Computing Kubernetes Docker Spark Hadoop REST APIs
EDUCATION

Schooling

M.S. Computer Science

University of Florida
2019 — 2021 · Gainesville, FL

B.E. Computer Science

Manipal University Jaipur
2012 — 2016 · Rajasthan, India

Certifications: EMC Academic Associate — Data Science & Big Data Analytics · Microsoft Technology Associate (2015)

CONTACT

Let's build something.

Currently in Seattle, working on Azure. My inbox is always open for interesting problems, collaborations, or just good ocean-diving spots.