Principal Software Engineering Manager

Vamsi Kancharla

Software Engineering Leader | Enterprise Platforms | Data Privacy | Cloud & AI Engineering

vamsi.k.kancharla@gmail.comLinkedInBangalore, India

Profile

Software engineering leader with a strong technical foundation in enterprise-grade product and platform development. Proven record of building high-performing, self-directed agile teams and coaching engineers through the full software lifecycle, from ideation and prototyping through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support. Deep experience in data privacy platforms, cloud systems, and solutions that help organizations meet regulatory and privacy compliance requirements.

Career Highlights

  • Lead engineering for privacy systems used by 4,000+ internal Microsoft teams to process approximately 7 million DSR requests per day.
  • Delivered solutions for EU AI regulations, Florida privacy law, GDPR, and CPRA.
  • Championed AI-assisted development for Trust360, with approximately 90% of the codebase generated with AI support while maintaining quality and productivity.
  • Helped grow a Microsoft product team from 2 to 27 people through hiring, onboarding, mentoring, architecture reviews, and code reviews.
  • Led vendor teams to ensure seamless support operations and service delivery.
  • Designed and delivered end-to-end solutions from prototyping through deployment, support, and retirement.
  • Collaborated with global teams to deliver products and services across organizational boundaries.

Professional Experience

  • AI Engineering
  • Platform Development
  • Data Privacy
  • Leadership
  • Self-Managed Teams
  • Project Management
Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd.Oct 2022 - PresentBangalore

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Mar 2025 - Present

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
  • Led teams building Microsoft privacy solutions that enable internal teams to fulfill customer DSR requests.
  • Owned software used by 4,000+ teams to execute approximately 7 million DSR requests each day.
  • Ensured legally compliant personal-data handling through monitoring, alerting, and auditing.
  • Delivered solutions for EU AI regulations, Florida privacy law, GDPR, and CPRA.
  • Led Synapse data pipelines and AKS microservices to improve resilience and reliability.

Key Projects

Trust360

Unified data inventory, cataloging, and classification platform enabling privacy compliance at scale; approximately 90% AI-assisted code.

NextGen Privacy DSR Services

Microservices that receive DSR requests, determine applicability, and distribute them to data agents across Microsoft.

NextGen Privacy Audit and Insights

Data pipelines and Power BI reporting for auditing DSR processing, monitoring agents, alerting owners, and measuring compliance.

Microsoft India Pvt. Ltd.May 2021 - Sep 2022Bangalore

Senior Software Engineer

  • Transitioned and took ownership of DataGrid, a data catalog and classification product.
  • Migrated its portal to Azure deployments, Geneva observability, and Azure Storage.
  • Mentored engineers through architecture and code reviews.
  • Helped the organization grow from 2 to 25 people through hiring, onboarding, and product development.

Key Projects

DataGrid

Privacy-focused catalog for discovery, tagging, classification, lineage visualization, and Elasticsearch-powered search.

PDMS / PCD

Portal and backend systems for managing teams, asset groups, agents, and variants.

Azure App Service | C# | .NET | JavaScript | Azure Storage | Elasticsearch

Pega SystemsApr 2020 - Feb 2021Hyderabad

Software Engineering Manager

  • Led a platform team responsible for request processing, routing, push notifications, and core capabilities.
  • Led cloud-transition features including distributed session transitions.
  • Stabilized the team during high attrition and maintained full retention for one year.

Key Project

Pega Platform

Low-code platform with core session management, HTTP handling, push notifications, DateTime APIs, and REST support.

Pega SystemsFeb 2016 - Mar 2020Hyderabad

Associate Architect

  • Designed push notification architecture with Atmosphere and WebSockets, supporting chatbots in CRM applications.
  • Built publish-subscribe session state capture, transfer, activation, and passivation.
  • Developed one-active-session-per-user security controls.
  • Integrated Hazelcast messaging and distributed locking.
  • Led on-call support, defect fixes, and patch releases.

Core Java | J2EE | Atmosphere | Hazelcast

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.Mar 2011 - Feb 2016Hyderabad

Principal Application Engineer

  • Contributed to multiple project-management products.
  • Designed and developed the P6 Team Member Android application end to end.
  • Technically led Contract Management and contributed REST APIs to P6 Team Member.

Key Projects

Oracle Primavera Prime

Planning, scheduling, resources, cost control, and risk analysis.

Primavera P6 Team Member

Web and mobile task updates, progress reporting, timesheets, and communication.

Primavera Contract Management

Contracts, budgets, costs, changes, document workflows, and collaboration.

Java | J2EE | Oracle Database | Android SDK | jQuery

AmdocsJul 2007 - Feb 2011Pune

Senior Subject Matter Expert

  • Designed and developed Java applications.
  • Resolved defects and participated in design and code reviews.
  • Supported a new product release at a customer site.

Key Projects

Sales Force Automation

Platform for selling and fulfilling print and digital media products.

Integrated Advertising Management

Advertising lifecycle platform spanning campaigns, inventory, workflows, and revenue.

Order Management

IAM module for selling products and managing orders.

RTMS

Reference-table management across modules.

OPSYS

Scheduled and on-demand batch-job automation.

Java 1.5 | J2EE | JDBC | JSP 2.0 | Servlets 2.4 | Struts 1.1 | XML | Oracle | Toad | Eclipse

Indian Overseas BankMay 2006 - Jun 2006Chennai

Intern

  • Lead Bank Report Generation: Developed Pro*C programs to generate credit data mart reports from warehouse data through a menu-driven workflow.

Skills

Leadership
Engineering leadership, team building, mentoring and coaching, agile delivery, architecture reviews, code reviews, hiring and onboarding
Architecture & Product
Enterprise architecture, solution design, product development, distributed systems, microservices, data engineering
Privacy & Security
Data privacy, data security, privacy compliance, Data Subject Rights, monitoring, auditing
Cloud & AI
Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure App Service, AI engineering, AI-assisted development
Languages & Platforms
Java, J2EE, C#, .NET, JavaScript, Android, databases, Redis, Elasticsearch, Power BI

Education

Master of Technology in Information Technology

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior | 2005 - 2007 | CGPA: 7.3

Thesis: Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Using Swarm Intelligence. Presented AntHocNet, a MANET routing algorithm based on Ant Colony Optimization, addressing changing network topology and route efficiency. Simulated with QualNet Network Simulator 4.0.

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Information Technology

Gokula Krishna College of Engineering, affiliated with JNTU Hyderabad | Sullurpet | 2001 - 2005 | 72.16%