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Product Manager · Microsoft Security

Building the marketplace where AI agents ship to enterprise security.

I own product strategy for the partner ecosystem of the Microsoft Security Store. My job is making it easy for partners (CSPs, MSSPs, and security ISVs) to build and ship agentic AI solutions across Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, and Intune.

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The short version

The best security products aren't the most secure. They're the ones partners can actually ship.

I'm a Product Manager at Microsoft Security. I own the partner ecosystem for the Microsoft Security Store, which means I spend my days figuring out how to make it as easy as possible for CSPs, MSSPs, and security ISVs to build AI-powered solutions and get them in front of enterprise buyers.

Before this, I was a 0-to-1 builder. Founding-team PM at two startups (one hit 800+ customers in Q1), then a Senior SRE in Tokyo keeping production alive for APAC. I can write a PRD that engineers actually want to build, and I'll push back hard on the ones that won't ship.

Columbia MBA (Strategy, Tech & Ops). Dartmouth Tuck Bridge. Microsoft AI Transformation Leader. Technical roots in Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. Built across Tokyo, New York, and Redmond. Conversational Japanese. Five languages.

  • 7+ yearsIn tech
  • 3 countriesBuilt across APAC, US
  • 5 languagesIncluding Japanese

From production on-call to product strategy

SRE, then startup PM, then MBA, then Microsoft. Every role sharpened a different edge.

2026 —

Product Manager

Microsoft Security · Redmond · Feb 2026 to Present

I run the partner side of the Microsoft Security Store. That means figuring out how CSPs, MSSPs, and security ISVs actually build and ship AI agents on top of Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, and Intune. My job is to make the APIs, developer tools, and go-to-market motion good enough that partners choose to build here instead of anywhere else.

2025

Security Solutions Advisor

Microsoft · New York · Jul 2025 to Feb 2026

Sat across the table from enterprise security buyers and learned what actually matters to them. Advised on architecture, helped close deals, and brought that frontline signal back to the product team so roadmaps reflected real problems.

2024

MBA, Strategy, Technology & Operations

Columbia Business School · New York · 2024 to 2025

Led product and consulting projects for Walmart, Christofle, and Ohanae. Scoped product requirements, ran consumer research for a luxury brand, and redesigned a fintech checkout flow. Came out sharper on strategy, GTM, and working in ambiguity.

2023

Product Manager, Founding Team

Yoko Street · Jan 2023 to May 2024

Joined as the first PM and shipped multiple products in year one. Built a feedback loop that pushed CSAT up 80%, reworked the digital funnel to grow subscriptions by 48%, and ran campaigns that brought in 800+ customers in Q1. Learned what it means to own everything when there's no one else to hand it off to.

2019

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Oisix ra daichi · Tokyo, Japan · Oct 2019 to Feb 2023

Rebuilt the cloud infrastructure that kept APAC grocery delivery running. Improved uptime by 30%, cut incident response time by 40%, and got disaster recovery to 100%. Created the monitoring dashboards the whole company ended up using (38% efficiency gain). On call for production. AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.

2019

Product Intern, Machine Learning

Jocata Financial Advisory · Hyderabad · 2019

Built an ML pipeline that automated document extraction at 99% accuracy. It got picked up by 20+ financial institutions and added roughly $250K in annual revenue. The first time I shipped something that actually scaled.

2015

B.Tech, Computer Science

Mahindra University · Hyderabad · 2015 to 2019

Spent summers doing research: ML-based space debris classification at the University of Florida, a Kaggle competition where we ranked top 5 globally at IIIT Hyderabad, computer vision at Tech Mahindra, and a stint at T-Hub, India's largest startup incubator. Graduated with the Best Outgoing Student Award.

What I believe about building products

Agentic AI changes everything

We're going from copilots that help you work to agents that work on your behalf. Enterprise security won't be about staring at dashboards much longer. It'll be agents that detect threats, reason about context, and respond before a human could. I'm shipping the platform that lets partners build these.

Platforms win by making partners successful

Your own features aren't the moat. The ecosystem is. If partners can build, ship, and grow on your platform faster than anywhere else, you win. That's why I care so much about developer experience, clean APIs, and cutting the time it takes to go from idea to live product.

Ship first, then iterate on signal

SRE taught me that perfect is the enemy of uptime. I bring the same instinct to product: figure out the smallest thing that teaches you something real, ship it, measure what happens, and decide what to do next. Ambiguity doesn't scare me.

Where I operate

  • Microsoft AI Transformation Leader
  • Columbia MBA · Strategy, Tech & Ops

AI & Agentic Ecosystems

  • Agentic AI
  • AI Agents
  • LLMs & Copilots
  • Generative AI
  • Responsible AI
  • Trust & Safety
  • RAG Pipelines

Product & Platform Strategy

  • 0-to-1 Product
  • Platform PM
  • Marketplace Strategy
  • Partner Ecosystems
  • API & DX Design
  • GTM Execution
  • Product-Led Growth

Enterprise Security

  • Microsoft Defender
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Entra ID
  • Purview
  • Intune
  • Zero Trust
  • Cybersecurity

Technical Depth

  • Azure & AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • Terraform & IaC
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Machine Learning
  • System Design

Let's build something

Always happy to talk with builders, product people, and anyone working at the intersection of AI and security.

Send a message

For product opportunities, speaking, or a conversation about agentic AI and security, send me a message on LinkedIn.

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