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Amy Colyer
Senior Cloud Advocate
Amy Colyer is a passionate tech enthusiast with a deep knowledge of infrastructure technologies after being in the industry for over 20 years. She has crossed platforms such as networking, server engineering, virtualization, automation and now cloud. Amy is certified in VMware, was a 5 times vExpert, as well as, being certified as an Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Community empowerment has always been very important to her and fueled her to work on training materials to enable individual success. As a Senior Cloud Advocate, she is excited to bring that passion to Microsoft and share her knowledge on Azure technologies to the community.

Hayden Hainsworth
GM Azure Reliability Engineering
Hayden Hainsworth is a General Manager, Technical Program Management leader for Azure Core Engineering. She leads the Azure Platform Experience Team (APex) where they look after the customer experience to ensure end to end production reliability and performance for IaaS services compute, networking and storage. She's a 20-year Microsoft veteran, and worked for several other industry companies, prior to joining Microsoft in 2004.

Husam Hilal
Sr. Partner Solution Architect
Husam Hilal is an Azure Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft Americas Global Partner Solution organization. During his 15 years in IT industry, he experienced various roles, which contributed to his diverse experience. Most recently, his technical expertise lies in Azure Infrastructure innovation, particularly Azure VMware Solution. His mission is to empower partners to achieve more by designing and implementing Microsoft Azure solutions to drive customers’ success. Husam is passionate about solving business challenges with technical solutions and achieving outstanding customers and partners satisfaction. Husam has various community contributions on different platforms such as LinkedIn aka.ms/AVSPros as well as on YouTube youtube.com/husamhilal.

Vamshidhar Kommineni
Group Product Manager, Azure Storage
Vamshi Kommineni is the head of product for Azure Object Storage responsible for product strategy and delivery, growth of the business and working closely with strategic customers and partners. Vamshi has been at Microsoft for twenty one years in a variety of roles ranging from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager and Product Manager. He has been in the Azure team for eighteen years, beginning in the "Project Red Dog" days when it was a small startup endeavor with less than 25 people. Prior to Azure, he was a developer in the Windows team working on reliability features in the core operating systems division.

Sudha Mahajan
Partner - Product Management
Sudha Mahajan is a passionate product management leader with over 21 years of experience in building and scaling successful consumer and digital products. Throughout her career, she has led cross-functional teams at industry giants like Microsoft, eBay, Flipkart, and Yahoo!, consistently driving innovation and achieving significant business growth. She is currently a product leader in Azure Core leading Azure Networking Connectivity, Domains and Secure Application Delivery services with focus on customers, growth and improving end to end experiences. She was recently awarded "Product Leader award" by Products that count.

Rochak Mittal
Partner Product Manager
Rochak Mittal is an engineering and product management leader with a 17+ years of experience of building cloud scale services and products for enterprise. He is a B.tech in IT from IIIT-A and has delivered business success in established products like Windows and Remote Desktop Services as well as in new initiatives like Azure Site Recovery. As a leader, Rochak has vast experience in building teams and driving collaboration across geographies. He believes a leader's role is to drive clarity, generate energy and care for the team. He focuses on bringing in the right talent, mentoring and enabling the team to achieve their goals. At Microsoft he has been recognized as top leader and consistently rated as top talent for his contributions and impact to the business.
Currently Rochak works as Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft in Azure Core and drives innovation and products in the domain of VMs, VMSS , Compute Capacity and Availability. Under his leadership, team has delivered many V1 releases to make Azure as the most trusted platform for the world.
Currently Rochak works as Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft in Azure Core and drives innovation and products in the domain of VMs, VMSS , Compute Capacity and Availability. Under his leadership, team has delivered many V1 releases to make Azure as the most trusted platform for the world.

Saurabh Sensharma
Principal PM, Azure Storage
Saurabh Sensharma is a Principal PM at Azure Storage driving product strategy and product investments for Artificial Intelligence workloads. He has 14+ years of product experience launching products across mobile computing, deep-learning & computer vision, security and authentication, as well cloud-native backup solutions as a former PM for Azure Backup. Saurabh's contributions have earned him 3 US patents, with a pending patent on AI assistants for remote interactions. Deeply customer-focused, Saurabh is constantly looking to identify and solve complex challenges in cloud and infrastructure technology, particularly around building the next generation of innovative solutions leveraging AI.