Prasant Kalidindi

Technical Product Manager | Platform Infrastructure & Security | Scaled systems serving 90M+ users | Microsoft | Austin → San Francisco

7 yrs experience · <10 hrs/week

About

I build enterprise platforms that scale. Over the past 5+ years at Microsoft, I've led technical product initiatives affecting 37M+ users and generating $72M+ in operational savings. My sweet spot is architecting cloud-native platforms, implementing enterprise security frameworks, and leading cross-functional teams through complex technical transformations. My background in electrical engineering helps bridge technical complexity with business impact, thriving in high-stakes environments.

Experience

  • Technical Product Manager · Microsoft2024-08-01 –

    Commerce Signup & Accounts Team, within Commerce Platform and Experiences org: Leading enterprise security and identity platform initiatives affecting 37M+ user accounts. Key projects include architecting automated security lifecycle platform with risk classification models and policy enforcement APIs, designing centralized authentication system reducing security incident response time by 40%, scaling customer support architecture, improving resolution time by 60% through self-service automation, and establishing real-time governance platform with cross-functional dashboards and automated reporting.

  • Technical Product Manager · Microsoft2022-08-01 – 2024-08-01

    Email Platform + Experiences PM team, within Commerce Platform and Experiences org: Built and scaled communication infrastructure serving 90M+ monthly transactions with 99.99% reliability. Platform achievements include architecting event-driven messaging platform supporting 6x throughput capacity, engineering infrastructure modernization improving reliability from 98% to 99.99%, creating developer-facing template platform with APIs and A/B testing capabilities, implementing compliance frameworks for payment standards and consumer protection regulations, and pioneering multi-channel expansion from email to SMS with unified API architecture.

  • Technical Product Manager · Microsoft2020-03-01 – 2022-08-01

    Consumer Subscriptions PM Team (Commerce Platform and Experiences): Coordinated foundational infrastructure projects and legacy system migrations. Key accomplishments include leading Azure Native convergence for Timeline, Recurring Order, and Consumer Recurrence Processor services, coordinating final CTP-to-Modern migration for 35M+ M365 consumer customers, and establishing sprint planning processes and development hygiene practices for Recurrence Engine team.

  • Student · The University of Texas at Austin2015-08-01 – 2019-12-01
  • Product Management Intern · Proofpoint2018-04-01 – 2018-08-01
  • Software Engineer Intern · Hewlett Packard Enterprise2017-05-01 – 2017-08-01

    Designed both front-end and back-end for Test Status Monitoring Tool. Developed HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript code to power the web tool. Helped forecast resource alignment for projects and predict time to market through tool development.

  • Model Administration Intern · ERCOT2016-05-01 – 2016-08-01

    Worked extensively with engineers to develop software to organize Transmission Project Data. Programmed using Java and Visual Basic to create logs of data for each transmission project; self-taught SQL to query through records.

Education

  • The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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