Murari Sridharan

Murari Sridharan is the current Chief Technology Officer at BankBazaar.com, and has been in this role for 6 years and 5 months. Prior to this, they were the GM Engineering, Cortana & Search, Windows Devices Group at Microsoft for 3 years and 5 months, where they were part of the leadership team responsible for Cortana & Search product definition and led the engineering team responsible for shipping Cortana/Search on all Windows devices. Murari was also responsible for hiring the team from scratch to build and release v1 of product in 18 months.

Before that, they were with IETF for 3 years, where they served as the Internet Congestion Control Research Group (ICCRG) Co-Chair and Ledbat WG Chair. In these roles, they helped evaluate problems and solutions and draft proposals for Internet-wide deployment. Murari also worked with the BitTorrent folks to standardize their proposal.

Prior to their time at IETF, they were the Principal Development Lead, Internet Protocols at Microsoft for 8 years and 11 months, and before that the Principal Engineer at RSoft Design Group for 1 year and 4 months.

Murari Sridharan has a PhD from Iowa State University in Computer Engineering, which they obtained in 2002. Murari's thesis was on the Design and Operation of Mesh-Restorable WDM Networks. Murari also has a B.E. from the University of Madras in Computer Science and Engineering, which they obtained in 1997. Murari went to high school at Shri Nehru Vidyalaya from 1988 to 1992.