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Soumitra Sengupta

Venture Partner at Elevate Capital Fund

Kirkland, Washington

Overview

Work Experience

  • Board Member

    2022 - Current

  • Executive In Residence

    2018

  • Venture Partner

    2020

  • Engineering Leader

    2021 - 2023

  • Co-Founder, CEO and Board Member

    2019 - 2021

  • Partner Director of Engineering

    2003 - 2017

  • Partner Director of Engineering, Universal Store

    2015 - 2017

    Leading engineering teams building platform technology and tools that run Microsoft's Digital Storefront. Currently Director of Software Engineering in Universal Store.

  • Principal Manager Software Engieering/Program Management, PowerBI

    2013 - 2015

    Led team that delivered the service foundation for Power BI. We launched PowerBI and I worked on multiple releases of PowerBI.

  • Principal Group Program Manager/Principal Lead Program Manager, Windows Phone

    2011 - 2012

    Led program management team that worked with Nokia and Qualcomm to build and ship the first Lumia series of Smartphones. Transitioned as GPM of the Hololens Incubation team in spring of 2012.

  • Principal Software Architect/Principal Lead Software Engineering, Windows Phone Application Platform

    2009 - 2011

    Me and my team worked on the Application Platform and Developer Tools for Windows Phone 7, 7.5 and 8.

  • Principal Software Architect, SQL Azure

    2006 - 2009

    Part of founding team that built the first Azure Database Service called SQL Azure/AzureDB

  • Principal Software Architect/Principal Product Unit Manager, SQL Server

    2003 - 2006

    Led multi-functional product team that released SQL Server 2005

  • Senior Director, Corio Technologies

    2002 - 2003

  • CTO and Co-Founder

    1998 - 2003

  • Senior Member Research Staff

    1995 - 1998

  • Senior Software Engineer and Project Lead

    1991 - 1995

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