Ravi Vedula

Ravi Vedula is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and a lifelong engineer who has spent much of his career building large-scale systems and guiding teams through major shifts in technology—from the move of Exchange and Office to the cloud to today’s generative AI era.

He leads IDEAS (Insights, Data, Engineering, Analytics, and Systems), the organization behind the unified data and insights platform for Microsoft’s Experiences + Devices division. IDEAS’ charter spans telemetry, experimentation, personalization, product growth infrastructure, and analytics, all built on an Azure-based platform that manages more than 400 petabytes of data and supports key experiences across Microsoft 365, Office 365, Security, and Copilot.

Ravi’s debut book, Hyderabad Days, revisits his childhood in Panjagutta, Hyderabad—a middle-class colony filled with gully cricket, festival sweets shared across balconies, and late-night conversations under streetlamps. Through a series of vignettes and stories, the memoir captures the friendships, mischief, and everyday experiences that shaped an engineer and a leader long before he wrote a line of code.

A heart-transplant survivor, Ravi now lives in Seattle with his wife. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, cooking, and following sports, especially cricket.