Pranav Gupta

Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

About

Pranav Gupta is a dynamic and accomplished engineering leader with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing software teams. As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Pranav leads with a strong sense of purpose, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. His leadership style is rooted in clarity, energy, and results—fully aligned with Microsoft’s principles of Create Clarity | Generate Energy | Deliver Results. With deep expertise across engineering management, scalable architecture, cloud security, CI/CD, and telemetry, Pranav brings both technical depth and strategic foresight to every initiative. His skill set spans .NET in Azure, Azure and AWS Cloud Migration, incident and outage management, and quality assurance processes, making him a versatile leader in both development and operations domains. [Pranav Gupta] Pranav has led transformational efforts in service delivery management, feature prioritization, and cross-team collaboration, consistently driving business impact through thoughtful planning and execution. He is known for his presentation skills, technical recruiting acumen, and ability to manage remote teams effectively. Pranav holds a leadership role in Microsoft Hyderabad. He is actively involved in strategic planning, including hackathons and transition initiatives, and continuew to grow his impact through cross-team initiatives. Outside of work, Pranav is known for his thoughtful mentorship, keen interest in data-driven decision-making, and commitment to team excellence. His ability to balance technical rigor with empathetic leadership makes him a trusted and inspiring figure across the organization. The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. ~ Stephen Hawking

Experience

  • Microsoft (Full-time · 6 yrs 8 mos)
    • Principal Software Engineering Manager
      Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Mar 2021 - Sep 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Software Engineer 2
      Nov 2019 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Member Of Technical Staff - 4 at Nutanix
    Aug 2017 - Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Software Engineer at Visa
    Aug 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo

    1. Implemented industry standard JSON Web Encryption(JWE) and JSON Web Signature(JWS), using Spring Framework in Java and SQL. 2. Doubled the number of authentication mechanisms from 2 to 4 (Added 2 new schemes: Oauth2.0 and JWS) for Visa Developer Platform. 3. Successfully migrated 100% traffic of Visa Tokenization Service(VTS) and Visa Checkout (VXO) to Visa Developer Platform. 4. Performed A/B testing before migration. 5. Coded the migration tool and went onsite(USA), to perform live migration of clients and debugging issues in production. 6. Performed functional-testing(TestNG framework), penetration-testing and performance benchmarking (using AWS EC2 instances and Akamai). 7. Implemented Outbound Traffic Migration of Visa Consumer Transaction Controls (VCTC) over IBM's Datapower boxes. 8. Fixed multiple security bugs in the existing infrastructure of Visa Developer Platform.

  • Member Of Technical Staff at Nutanix
    Jan 2016 - Jul 2016 · 7 mos

    1. Implemented BIOS/BMC Upgrade for HyperV hypervisor using multithreading and zookeeper concepts. 2. Implemented one-click Simplified SSD break-fix procedure for HyperV using Windows Powershell 4.0 cmdlets. 3. Implemented one-click SATADOM break-fix for HyperV, ESXi and KVM hypervisors using clone/restore concepts.

  • Student Faculty Council, BITS Pilani (Rajasthan, India)
    • Member
      Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr

      1. Implemented the policy decisions taken by the council 2. Voicing student concerns to the faculty.

    • Treasurer
      Apr 2014 - May 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

      1. Financial Management of the student body having more than 60 inmates. 2. Implemented Techniques which allowed the organization to hold more events within the same budget.