Vishali Manivannan

Sheffield

Summary

Experienced in building scalable backend and cloud systems, now focused on API externalization, technical partnerships, and platform adoption at LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, bridging product, engineering, and partners to deliver high-impact solutions.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer

Bangalore

03.2026 - Current

Drive technical partnerships across LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, bridging Product, Engineering, Business Development, and strategic partners to scale adoption of LinkedIn advertising APIs.
Led the Member Delegation program, enabling delegated member-context capabilities and driving adoption across 4 partners.
Owned technical externalization and RESTful API design & developmentof the Boost API across Member and Company Page contexts, access tiers, partner onboarding, and integration requirements under the existing Advertising APIs program.
Drove the Boost API program toward $2.5M FY27 revenue impact and ~$20M ARR potential at full scale.
Partnered with Legal, Privacy, Product, and Engineering to establish scalable API access models, permission frameworks, and production-readiness requirements for external partners.
Guided partners through technical discovery, architecture reviews, implementation, and onboarding while contributing to API design, documentation, versioning, and externalization strategy.

Software Engineer II, Software Engineer 1

Microsoft

01.2021 - 03.2026

Designed and scaled distributed, event-driven backend services for a mission-critical Azure usage and billing platform supporting 80+ Azure services and millions of daily events.
Led the migration of Azure Cosmos DB billing to Microsoft’s next-generation Oro platform, enabling automated provisioning across 13+ billing modes and diverse cloud products.
Built cloud-native APIs, Resource Providers, and data pipelines using C#, Azure Event Hub, Stream Analytics, and ADX, ensuring high-performance and stateful, reliable billing workflows.
Developed validation, monitoring, and anomaly-detection frameworks that improved operational efficiency, reduced manual intervention, and helped prevent revenue loss.
Owned live-site operations, resolving 500+ incidents while partnering across product and platform teams to deliver 99.99% accuracy and reliability for global enterprise customers.

Senior Technical Consultant

Microsoft

08.2017 - 12.2020

Facilitated support for large-scale Microsoft Teams Live Events with up to 10,000 attendees, ensuring seamless meeting experiences while mentoring junior engineers and handling high-priority escalations.
Led the Severity A incident response team for top-tier enterprise customers, delivering rapid resolution of critical outages including network disruptions and collaboration platform architecture failures (Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams).
Drove cross-platform quality validation across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android, uncovering defects, filing actionable reports, and partnering with product engineering teams to implement fixes that improved platform reliability.
Mentored and led junior engineers, increasing team efficiency and ensuring adherence to escalation workflows.
Championed customer success by managing high-impact cases end-to-end, restoring business continuity for enterprise clients and protecting multi-million-dollar revenue streams.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering

Sastra University

Thanjavur

06.2017

Skills

Programming Languages: C/C, C#, Python, NET, PowerShell, Bash, Shell Scripting, Java
Partner Engineering, Developer Relations, Partner Integrations,Technical Consulting
API Platform: API Design, Externalization, Permissions, Versioning, Documentation
Marketing & Ad Tech, LinkedIn Advertising APIs, Marketing
Developer Platform
Databases & Query Languages: SQL, NoSQL, SQL Server, KQL, ASAQL, Data Modeling, Query Optimization

Software Engineering: System Design, Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS), Microservices, Software Testing, Automated Testing
DevOps & Automation: CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure Automation, Configuration as Code, ECS, Continuous Delivery, Automation Scripting
AI & Development: Prompt Engineering
Monitoring & Alerting

Technologies

Cosmos DB
KQL
Azure Stream Analytics (ASA)
Git
Azure Service Fabric
SRE Practices
REST API design
gRPC
Rest.li
Pegasus
Java, C#, Python
Microservices
Distributed Systems

Languages

English - Proficient (C2)
Hindi - Proficient (C2)
Tamil - Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Senior Partner Solutions Engineer

03.2026 - Current

Software Engineer II, Software Engineer 1

Microsoft

01.2021 - 03.2026

Senior Technical Consultant

Microsoft

08.2017 - 12.2020

B.Tech - Computer Science And Engineering

Sastra University