Saranya Sriram is the Asia product lead, and a principle product manager on the engineering team for Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi model Database as a Service- Azure Cosmos DB team. This is NoSQL sharded database as a service powering many modern real-time apps such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Starbucks, Walmart checkout and product catalog, and most of Microsoft internal services such as Microsoft Teams, Active Directory, Xbox, IoT services and more. Saranya is based in Singapore and works across world-wide teams on the product development and leads the Asia focused business on customers and Partners. Saranya has spent 19 over years I Microsoft across various roles of Dev, Developer Evangelist, Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), building large teams of CSA for Asia and customer and partner organization prior to product management. Saranya has worked across Asia spanning India, APAC, China/HK, Japan, Korea, Australia and NZ.

Saranya graduated from BITS Pilani, India with Masters in Physics and Computer Science Engineering and later MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business with high honors.

Outside of work, Saranya is a performing Bharatnatyam-Indian classical dancer and actively engages with community to teach both dance and technology and presents in women in tech initiatives