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Raghavateja Kalapatapu

Executive engineering leader specializing in cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and enterprise SaaS

MicrosoftUNC Kenan-Flagler Business SchoolCalifornia, USA22 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks Remote

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Senior Microsoft engineering leader who has led globally distributed orgs of up to 250 engineers while staying deeply technical in large-scale platform architecture, reliability, and AI systems. Notable work includes modernizing Teams infrastructure serving massive global scale and incubating an internal AI pair-programmer/knowledge-graph platform over 650M lines of code, plus helping launch foundational Copilot search and retrieval APIs.

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Key Strengths

  • Led global engineering organizations of 50 to 250 engineers across multiple regions
  • Drove multi-year modernization of a 20+ year monolith into Azure/Kubernetes microservices
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems at extreme scale
  • Hands-on architecture leadership in API design, failure isolation, observability, and disaster recovery
  • Managed complex migrations across 30+ dependent teams
  • Built AI-enabled developer platform over 650M lines of code
  • Scaled hackathon prototype into a 15-person funded product team
  • Strong people manager with org redesign around domain ownership
  • Built multi-region hiring pipelines and onboarding programs
  • Handled performance issues thoughtfully by matching leaders to best-fit roles
  • Translated enterprise customer pain points into real-time data platform priorities during pandemic demand
  • Led cross-functional delivery across search, graph, grounding, security/compliance, and infrastructure teams
  • Used direct customer input from SAP and Nvidia to shape API design and accelerate delivery
  • Delivered private preview in weeks and production-ready API platform in two months

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Experience

Partner, Director of Engineering, Substrate Core (M365 Infrastructure)Microsoft · Mar 2023 – Jul 2025
Partner, Director of Engineering, Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft · Jan 2021 – Mar 2023
Group Engineering Manager, Microsoft TeamsMicrosoft · Mar 2019 – Jan 2021
Software Development Manager, Amazon MarketplaceAmazon · Mar 2016 – Mar 2019
Senior Technical Program Manager, Retail SystemsAmazon · Jan 2015 – Mar 2016
Technical ManagerOracle
Software Development ManagerOracle
Senior SoftwareOracle
Senior EngineerSierra Atlantic

Education

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business Schoolmaster, Business Administration
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabadbachelor, Computer Science

Awards

  • Patent holder for life cycle management of SOA projects and techniques for rapid deployment of service artifacts

Languages

English

Publications

1 publication

SOA lifecycle managementService artifact deployment

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