Dhananjay is a customer-obsessed Product Leader currently working as a Principal Program Manager on the Azure Data platform team at Microsoft. He works on Azure Arc enabled data services like SQL Server, SQL MI, Postgres for stateful cloud-native applications running on Kubnernetes in hybrid multi cloud environments. He launched the global partner program (OEMs, ISVs, IHVs and SIs) for Arc-enabled data services. He has over 20 years experience in distributed, scalable systems, Cloud services (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS), Azure, AWS, GCE, container platforms, Microservices, SOA, middleware and consumer platforms. He works on Azure developing Enterprise hybrid and public cloud products at Microsoft.

He was also involved in the early stages of developing Oracle cloud infrastructure and delivering multi-cloud platforms for Enterprise customers at Avanade. Specialization - Cloud infrastructure platforms (IaaS), SaaS applications, PaaS, Container platforms, Kubernetes, Microservices, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web services, Datacenter, IT Management systems, System Center, Windows Server (Win Server 2008 R2, 2012), Hyper-V, Service oriented Architectures, .NET, Web services, ASP.NET, Application management.