Denesh Pohar

VP of Engineering

Greater Seattle Area

About

Engineering leader, manager and architect with two decades of industry experience, ranging from startups to established companies and both small & large interdisciplinary teams. Leads Truveta's App & Developer Experience Engineering teams. Co-founded Project EmpowerMD at Microsoft Healthcare, creating ambient intelligence for the clinic. Architected Microsoft Power BI's visualization stack and query engine.

Experience

  • Truveta (Greater Seattle Area)
    • VP of Engineering
      Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Reporting to CTO, architected and scaled Truveta’s applications, platforms, and SDK ecosystem supporting one of the largest U.S. de-identified patient record datasets (130M+ patient lives). - Led full stack engineering teams building and supporting multiple apps (web, mobile, CLI) and microservices - Established Internal Platform team for deployment, Monitoring, Kubernetes, Documentation tooling & services shared across engineering org - Defined SDLC & Change Management compliance process across company for SOC2, HIPAA, HITRUST compliance

    • Director Of Engineering
      Dec 2020 - Nov 2022 · 2 yrs

      Lead Truveta Studio App Experiences team, to enable clinical researchers with low to high coding and data analysis abilities. - Founded and scaled Apps team from 2 engineers - Drive Apps technical strategy, vision, and implementation

  • Microsoft (Greater Seattle Area)
    • Principal Software Architect | Engineering Manager
      Jun 2017 - Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Co-founded Project EmpowerMD at Microsoft Healthcare. - Founding engineer on team that grew from 2 to 20+ people in three years, and landed partnership with Nuance Communications, now Microsoft Dragon Copilot. - Drive technical strategy, architecture, implementation, hiring, security & compliance and more. - Worked closely with NLP & Speech Applied Scientists team through Data Science lifecycle: data acquisition & pipelines, training, testing, deployment, and monitoring. - Delivered AI-infused telehealth experience in Microsoft Teams with partner Nuance Communications. - Collaborate closely with Microsoft partners, including large ISVs, startups, and healthcare systems. - Presented product vision to Healthcare C-suites, collaborated with field and sales organizations, presented work at health conferences

    • Principal Software Architect
      Feb 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Architect for Power BI Desktop. - Lead Architect for Power BI data visualization & query components that are hosted in Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, and Power BI Q&A - Helping define & drive technical direction for a 50 engineer team - Growing, mentoring, challenging, and supporting the "future leaders" of the organization - Working with Power BI teams across SaaS, PaaS, and Mobile to coordinate and build great end-to-end experiences - Supporting remote engineering teams overseas

    • Principal Software Engineer
      Mar 2008 - Feb 2016 · 8 yrs

      Power BI Desktop, PowerBI.com, Power BI Q&A, Microsoft Power BI in Office 365, Power View in Microsoft Office Excel 2013. - Technical lead on Power BI data visualizations - Worked on natural language modeling for Power BI Q&A - Owned the query design experience in SQL Server Reporting Services client tools, including SQL Server, Analysis Services, SharePoint list, Parallel Data Warehouse, Oracle, and other data sources.

  • Software Developer at 90 Degree Software
    Nov 2005 - Mar 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    A key member of a startup that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008. We created a report authoring tool from nothing to three major releases in two years. - Built a SQL Server Analysis Services query designer from scratch in 6 months. - Designed & implemented a WCF-based peer-to-peer communications framework. - Built several WPF-based user interface controls. - Designed the product licensing/keycode mechanism. - Created the installer and patching solution. - Thrived in an Agile/Scrum development environment

  • Software Developer at Business Objects
    Dec 2003 - Nov 2005 · 2 yrs

    Vancouver Product Group 2004 Rookie of the Year award finalist. - Made several procedural improvements to streamline installer development for my peers. - Used JNI & Managed Extensions for C++ to allow use of existing C++ assets and newly written Java & .NET APIs within a single environment.

  • Technical Writer (Contract) at Integrated Vehicle Technologies Research Inc.
    Jul 2003 - Sep 2003 · 3 mos