Prashanti Kundangari

• Delivered the first Semantic Search capability in Windows, deployed to 3M+ users.
• Led end-to-end AI integration across indexing, ranking, and query execution layers, using advanced AI models and OCR-based extraction.
• Modernized a 20-year-old search platform by introducing next-generation relevance innovations, including personalized ranking signals, MRU-based prioritization, and user-intent–driven query understanding — evolving the experience from static retrieval to adaptive intelligence.
• Drove significant query latency improvements through deep query-path optimizations, intelligent caching strategies, and execution-layer enhancements — strengthening performance, responsiveness, and power efficiency at scale.
• Engineered a breakthrough adaptive indexing architecture introducing intelligent multi-pass processing, reducing indexing time by 90% while significantly improving freshness, efficiency, and overall system throughput.
• Built a robust, end-to-end telemetry and health framework for the Search Indexer platform, enabling real-time adoption insights, quality measurement, regression detection, and data-driven product decisions.
• Led cross-functional teams for successful product launches and system integrations, resulting in increased efficiency and customer satisfaction.

• Led engineering for Communications Compliance solution serving 1M+ enterprise tenants, ensuring secure, scalable regulatory enforcement.
• Architected a distributed Azure ecosystem leveraging Functions, Event Hubs, Spark (streaming & batch), Cosmos DB, Kusto, and Elasticsearch to support high-scale compliance workloads.
• Directed large-scale audit data processing pipelines delivering reliable analytics with strong consistency and performance guarantees.
• Re-architected and rebuilt a legacy service from the ground up, successfully migrating it to a modern Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)-based microservices platform significantly improving scalability, deployment velocity, resiliency, and operational transparency.
• Redesigned reporting architecture, pivoting data strategy to achieve 75% cost savings while maintaining high-performance SLAs.
• Elevated release quality, resiliency, and operational stability across complex microservices environments.

• Directed multi-product engineering strategy across Admin UI, Integrations, and Storefront platforms, aligning platform modernization with long-term business growth objectives.
• Led architectural transformation initiatives, including JET → VBCS migration, strengthening security posture through MFA and IDCS integration while significantly enhancing scalability and maintainability.
• Established structured migration frameworks that accelerated large-scale enterprise transitions and increased cloud commerce adoption.
• Drove performance engineering initiatives, introducing multi-threaded bulk processing capabilities to support high-volume catalog and user onboarding at enterprise scale.
• Built, scaled, and mentored a high-performing 10+ member engineering organization, embedding strong Agile execution, ownership culture, and delivery excellence.
• Increased customer satisfaction, addressing technical issues promptly and effectively through close communication with clients.
• Directed multi-product engineering strategy across Admin UI, Integrations, and Storefront platforms, aligning platform modernization with long-term business growth objectives.
• Led architectural transformation initiatives, including JET → VBCS migration, strengthening security posture through MFA and IDCS integration while significantly enhancing scalability and maintainability.
• Established structured migration frameworks that accelerated large-scale enterprise transitions and increased cloud commerce adoption.
• Drove performance engineering initiatives, introducing multi-threaded bulk processing capabilities to support high-volume catalog and user onboarding at enterprise scale.
• Built, scaled, and mentored a high-performing 10+ member engineering organization, embedding strong Agile execution, ownership culture, and delivery excellence.

Impact: Elevated platform scalability and resilience, accelerated enterprise customer modernization journeys, and reinforced long-term customer trust and retention.