Shireesh is the Corporate Vice President of Azure Databases at Microsoft.

The mission of Azure Data is to help customers build a new class of data-first applications and drive a data culture where every employee can make better decisions based on data.  

Shireesh leads product management, engineering, and cloud operations for Azure Databases. The products in his team’s portfolio include Azure SQL Database (on-prem, Hybrid and Cloud), Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, and Azure MySQL.

Previously, as the Senior Vice President at SingleStore, Shireesh was responsible for end-to-end engineering and product vision of the company.

Before moving to SingleStore, Shireesh was a founding member of Cosmos DB, where he architected, designed, and directly contributed to multiple key pieces of the services.

Shireesh has 20+ years of experience on large scale, big data, scale-out, relational and schema agnostic distributed systems across SQL, Azure Cosmos DB and PostgreSQL/Citus.