Swaroop Kavalanekar

Swaroop Kavalanekar has a strong background in engineering and leadership roles. Their most recent position is Senior Director of Engineering at Galileo Financial Technologies since November 2020. Prior to that, they worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an Engineering Leader from October 2016 to November 2020. Swaroop also had a long tenure at Microsoft from August 2003 to October 2016, where they served as an Engineering and Product Leader. In this role, they led various teams and projects, including real-time monitoring and analytics data platforms for Office 365, performance management of the Office 365 service, resource governance, and technical product management for SQL Server and Azure SQL DB cloud service. Swaroop also contributed to the development of Windows client and server operating systems, including architecting and developing the performance optimization framework for Windows Server, and providing technical analysis and roadmap for future Microsoft products based on industry trends in storage and memory technologies. Overall, Swaroop has a wealth of experience in engineering and product management, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and customer scenarios.

Swaroop Kavalanekar earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati.