- Experienced engineering leader of more than 14 years in building and shipping Cloud services(PaaS, Saas) and boxed product in an innovative and fast paced agile environment. - Shipped several high quality products various platforms : Azure (Skype), Mobile iOS (Office for iPad), Mac OSX (Microsoft Outlook), Android & windows phone(Rich media ads) - Extensive experience in building high scalable and highly available product for web and Cloud (Saas)with reach of over ~500 million customers - Love building large scale services wearing multiple hats including program manager, developer and tester using both MS technology and Open source(Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, NodeJS) - Established people manager of 8 yrs in building, retaining, mentoring and promoting talent. Specialities: Azure Cloud, iOS, Big Data, NodeJS, C, C++, .Net, Java, Objective-C, NodeJS, SQL, No-SQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Performance & scalability, Security

Senior Engineering Manager in Skype @ - Building high quality AB testing platform for doing controlled experiments by Skype clients. Restful service serving million of request, serving about 200 Million request per day - Shipping highly scalable, highly available and low latency Event delivery services(SaaS) running in Azure. Used by iOS Skype client, Skype web client for Call notification. - Lead azure test strategy effort to optimize and enable new teams efficiently onboard and ship services in Azure - Operate in Agile mode shipping every 2 weeks. - Building continuous delivery pipeline for Skype services. From January 2014 to Present (2 years) Senior Test Lead @ - Shipped 14.x product release cycles of Microsoft Outlook for MAC. - Partnered with architecture and Product management team in setting and implementing product roadmap for V-Next of Mac Outlook. - Responsible for vision and strategy for outlook test team. - Created a working group to drive Telemetry strategy for office for iPad. Architected solution to ensure right data is logged to Big data store and build custom reports for senior leadership team. From February 2012 to January 2014 (2 years) SDET II and Test Lead @ - Worked with multi-site team of engineers located in Redmond, Washington DC, India and China in Shipping Microsoft Amalga, an enterprise Health care offering from Microsoft. - Involved in test planning, Automation, deployment and Customer support for Microsoft Amalga data ingestion pipeline and Middle-tier web services. Technology used .Net with SQL backend. - Responsible for building performance infrastructure, frameworks and executing performance, stress and load test for entire product. - Lead team of 5 engineers in building UI based automation frameworks for testing next generation Amalga web portal. - Recognized as a talented manager and leader with consistently high manager feedback scores From March 2005 to January 2012 (6 years 11 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaSystem Validation Engineer @ Part of the Graphics System validation team working on Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon Validation of Gen 3.5 Intel Integrated Graphics Chip. Involved in writing test plans and test cases for Frame Buffer Compression, Overlay and Mpeg. From March 2004 to February 2005 (1 year) Design Engineer @ Validation of TI DSP TMS320c5509 chip, this involves coding Chip Support Library (CSL) for the device and few of its peripherals viz Multichannel buffered serial port, External Memory Interface, Interrupt Controller, Power Control module, UART. From July 2001 to February 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Vijay Neelakandan is skilled in: Cloud Computing, PaaS, SaaS, High Availability, MongoDB, Redis, Node.js, Windows Azure, NoSQL, SQL Azure, Testing, Test Planning, Agile Methodologies, Test Automation, SQL