Hi! I’m Ravi Vedula
I’m an engineering leader at Microsoft, where I’ve spent much of my career building large-scale systems and guiding teams through major waves of transformation, from the evolution of Exchange and Office to SaaS to today’s generative AI shift across the Microsoft productivity cloud.
As a Corporate Vice President, I lead IDEAS (Insights, Data, Engineering, Analytics, and Systems), a global organization of more than 1,000 people that I built from the ground up. Over time, we brought together several parallel efforts across Microsoft into a single, cohesive data and insights platform that now runs at cloud scale spanning telemetry, experimentation, personalization, product growth infrastructure, and analytics. The platform manages more than 400 petabytes of data using Azure Data technologies and serves as the analytical and operational backbone of our productivity ecosystem, including Microsoft 365, Office 365, Security, and Copilot.
I bring multidisciplinary executive leadership across product management, engineering, and data science, combining strategic clarity with systems thinking and operational scale. My team spans a range of disciplines and geographies, including the USA, Europe, China, and India. While their areas of focus vary, they’re aligned by a commitment to actionable insights, meaningful product impact, and a clear understanding of customer needs.
I’m passionate about building teams that move with purpose and precision, and scaling systems that power transformation at global scale. Beyond work, I enjoy traveling to new places, cooking, and following sports, especially cricket.
My story. Perhaps yours too
Hyderabad Days, my debut book, began as a tribute to a time and place—to Panjagutta in Hyderabad, where I spent my childhood in the 1980s and 90s. But as the stories poured out, it became much more. It became a tapestry of the universal experiences that shape us all—friendship, mischief, heartbreak, discovery, and the quiet lessons we carry forward into adulthood.
While the setting is unmistakably Hyderabad, with its cricket matches, milk card rituals, mirchi bajji snacks, and the thrill of color TV, the spirit of the book reaches far beyond. Whether you grew up in Delhi or Detroit, Mumbai or Manila, there is something familiar here: the feeling of being part of a close-knit community, of being raised by more than just your parents, of first crushes and collective laughter, and of the small tragedies that shook our little worlds.
Hyderabad Days is being published by 8080 books and distributed by Simon and Schuster. The foreword is written by Greg Shaw, co-author of Satya Nadella’s Hit Refresh and Kevin Scott’s Reprogramming the American Dream among others. All author proceeds are donated to charity.
