Microsoft veteran Anil Bhansali to head its India R&D

23rd October 2013
Microsoft veteran Anil Bhansali to head its India R&D

Hyderabad, October 23, 2013: Microsoft  has announced the appointment of Anil Bhansali as the new leader of its development centre in India and Managing Director of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd. Anil, who is the General Manager of Cloud and Enterprise engineering teams at the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC), will now expand his responsibilities to lead MSIDC. He will continue to be  Says

S.Somasegar, Corporate Vice-President, Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation: “Anil is a 22-year veteran with Microsoft. He spent the first 12 years of his career in Redmond before moving to MSIDC. His appointment is a testament to Microsoft’s leadership talent here in India. Anil brings with him an excellent understanding of Microsoft, its culture and an appreciation of the unique aspects of distributed development.”

Anil began his career with Microsoft in Redmond in 1991 as part of the Office division where he worked on MS Excel for multiple releases. He was the Partner Development Manager in the Office Shared Services Team that worked on SharePoint Team Services V1.0 and Windows SharePoint Service version 2.0. Anil relocated to India in 2003 as Director of the Windows Live Platforms Services Group. He established and drove several engineering efforts at MSIDC before taking over the engineering leadership of the Windows feature engineering group within MSIDC in 2006.Anil has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.

The Microsoft India Development Center of Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd commenced operations in Hyderabad in 1998 with about 20 people.  Today, it has a headcount of 2000 plus employees that work closely with product engineering teams from Microsoft Corporation’s headquarters at Redmond, making it one of Microsoft’s largest development centers outside the US.