Senior Technical Product Manager | Microsoft | Redmond, Washington, United States

Poornima Muthukumar is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Microsoft with over 10 years of experience in developing and delivering innovative solutions for various domains such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, distributed and big data systems. She has a Master’s Degree in Data Science from the University of Washington. Poornima holds 4 patents at Microsoft specializing in AI/ML and Big Data Systems and was the winner of the Global Hackathon in 2016 in the Artificial Intelligence Category. She was honored to receive the Indian Achievers Award for Excellence in the field of Data Science and Machine Learning this year 2023. Poornima was on the Grace Hopper Conference reviewing panel for the Software Engineering and Data Science category this year 2023. It was a rewarding experience for her to read and evaluate the submissions from talented women in these fields and contribute to the advancement of women in technology, as well as to learn from their research and insights. She is also a committee member for the Microsoft Machine Learning AI and Data Science (MLADS) conference. Poornima is also an Ambassador at the Women in Data Science Worldwide Community and Women Who Code Data Science Community. She has also given talks at Universities to aspiring Data Scientists/Computer Science students.