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Sameer Mhaisekar
Solutions Engineer
Thane,MH
Summary
A self-driven and self-motivated 2x Microsoft MVP, with experience in the roles of a Product Advocate, Solutions Engineer, Technical Marketing, and Customer Success Engineer with deep experience in technical pre-sales, customer demos, PoCs, workshops, and solution architecture discussions.
Known for bridging product, engineering, sales, and customers, and for delivering high-quality technical content, workshops, and conference sessions.
Awarded Azure Community Hero, Azure Content Hero, and Microsoft MVP for contributions to the Microsoft ecosystem.
Founder/Organizer of Experts Live India, the Indian edition of the global Microsoft community conference.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Solutions/DevRel Engineer
SquaredUp
10.2023 - Current
- Delivered customer demos, PoCs, and workshop sessions to demonstrate real-world use cases using SquaredUp’s dashboarding platform.
- Involved in Copilot adoption and evangelism within the organization to drive and showcase an AI-assisted way of working.
- Involved in the technical marketing of the product by participating in webinars, competitor analysis, and GTM strategies for new features.
- Collaborated with sales teams to customize demo narratives, address objections, and support opportunity progression.
- Partnered with PMs and engineering to relay customer feedback, improve product direction, and align messaging.
- Produced high-quality videos, blogs, and webinars that improved product education and pre-sales readiness.
- Established strong working relationships with clients through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
- Technologies: unified dashboarding, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure, API integrations, and other tools.
Consultant
TopQore
10.2022 - 10.2023
- Led customer-facing demos, training sessions, and webinars for hybrid cloud and monitoring modernization journeys.
- Delivered technical training programs on modern data centers, Azure hybrid, and monitoring solutions.
- Supported customer requirements gathering and solution mapping for hybrid cloud platforms.
- Technologies: Azure Stack HCI, SCOM, Azure Arc, Hybrid Cloud.
- Managed client relationships through regular check-ins and updates on project progress.
Principal Engineering Technologist
Dell EMC
11.2021 - 10.2022
- Delivered technical presentations, solution demos, and PoCs across global enterprise accounts.
- Collaborated closely with pre-sales, field engineering, marketing, and product teams to align solution capabilities with customer needs.
- Provided architecture guidance for Azure hybrid deployments, and relayed field insights back to engineering.
- Managed multiple projects concurrently.
- Technologies: Azure Stack HCI, Azure Arc, hybrid-cloud integrations, datacenter, and SDN platforms.
Technical Evangelist
SquaredUp
08.2019 - 11.2021
- Delivered customer onboarding sessions, walkthroughs, and demos, supporting product adoption.
- Created effective content (blogs, webinars) that contributed to successful customer conversions.
- Technologies: Unified dashboarding, SCOM, Azure, API integrations, and other tools.
Sr. Technical Consultant
Green House Data
01.2019 - 07.2019
- Technologies: Azure IaaS, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), SCOM, migration tooling
- Delivered customer engagements focused on Azure migrations and cloud readiness assessments.
- Supported ASR-based migration projects and monitoring implementations.
Sr. Technical Consultant
Infront Consulting Group
10.2018 - 12.2018
- Technologies: Azure IaaS, SCOM
- Delivered SCOM and Azure IaaS implementation and support across enterprise environments.
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
08.2015 - 09.2018
- Technologies: SCOM, CA UIM, Azure IaaS
- Delivered architecture planning, deployment, and migration of enterprise monitoring environments.
- Conducted tool comparison demos (SCOM vs CA UIM), built PoCs, and delivered modernization proposals to clients.
- Optimized monitoring for diverse enterprise infrastructures across multiple teams.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
M.G.M’s Jawaharlal Nehru College of Engineering
01.2015
Skills
Solution Engineering & Pre-Sales
Customer demos and PoCs
M365 Copilot, M365 Copilot Chat, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry
Technical discovery & requirement analysis
Architecture sessions, adoption planning
Tailored scenario-based value storytelling
M365 Copilot adoption and evangelism
Familiarity with Power Platform
Prompt engineering
Cross functional collaboration
Public speaking (webinars, conferences, podcasts)
Content creation (blogs, videos, demos)
Observability
Community building
Accomplishments
- Awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP award twice in a row - for Azure Hybrid Cloud and Azure AI Services
- Awarded Microsoft Content Hero and Microsoft Community Hero
AWARDS
2× Microsoft MVP (Azure AI Services, Hybrid Cloud), Azure Community Hero, Azure Content Hero
Interests
Trekking
Public Speaking
Timeline
Solutions/DevRel Engineer
SquaredUp
10.2023 - Current
Consultant
TopQore
10.2022 - 10.2023
Principal Engineering Technologist
Dell EMC
11.2021 - 10.2022
Technical Evangelist
SquaredUp
08.2019 - 11.2021
Sr. Technical Consultant
Green House Data
01.2019 - 07.2019
Sr. Technical Consultant
Infront Consulting Group
10.2018 - 12.2018
System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
08.2015 - 09.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communications
M.G.M’s Jawaharlal Nehru College of Engineering