Sharad Bajaj

Sharad Bajaj

Greater Seattle Area
28K followers 500+ connections

About

I am a senior engineering executive with 25+ years of experience building and scaling…

Articles by Sharad

  • Encourage your Team - Celebrate success

    Engineering management is a difficult job. It got even more difficult since COVID-19 pushed us to work remotely.

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Experience

  • Microsoft Graphic

    Microsoft

    Redmond, Washington, United States

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Bellevue

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    Greater Seattle Area

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Education

Publications

  • MetaShift - Why great leaders get stuck and how to evolve beyond expertise in the AI Era

    Amazon

    A must-read blueprint for leadership transformation in the age of AI.
    In an era where Generative AI is reshaping everything we know about leadership and innovation, METASHIFT offers a groundbreaking approach based on real experiences from Microsoft and Amazon.

    Drawing from his journey as a founding member of Microsoft Teams and his current role leading AI initiatives at Amazon, Sharad Bajaj presents:

    • A practical framework for leadership evolution in the AI age • Real-world…

    A must-read blueprint for leadership transformation in the age of AI.
    In an era where Generative AI is reshaping everything we know about leadership and innovation, METASHIFT offers a groundbreaking approach based on real experiences from Microsoft and Amazon.

    Drawing from his journey as a founding member of Microsoft Teams and his current role leading AI initiatives at Amazon, Sharad Bajaj presents:

    • A practical framework for leadership evolution in the AI age • Real-world case studies from Teams, AWS, and Amazon Connect • Actionable strategies for transforming technical expertise into adaptive leadership • Battle-tested approaches for integrating human and artificial intelligence.

  • Drive to Thrive

    Self

    Drive to Thrive is a book that will help you bring greater depth, understanding, and clarity to your leadership and management style. Every chapter will propel you towards making operational and managerial excellence a habit to thrive as a manager and build a high performing team. After reading the book, you will be able to effectively manage your team by building the right team culture and putting the right processes in place. This book will explain to you the key team management, team…

    Drive to Thrive is a book that will help you bring greater depth, understanding, and clarity to your leadership and management style. Every chapter will propel you towards making operational and managerial excellence a habit to thrive as a manager and build a high performing team. After reading the book, you will be able to effectively manage your team by building the right team culture and putting the right processes in place. This book will explain to you the key team management, team building, and self-growth concepts with practical examples.

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Patents

  • Screen sharing via a thin client application

    Issued US 11122149

    A server device may host a communication application that remotely accessed by a computing device. Display data generated by a remotely accessed application is communicated to the computing device from the server device. The display data generated by the remotely accessed application is communicated from the computing device to another computing device associated with a user participating in the communication session hosted by the communication application. A communication application executing…

    A server device may host a communication application that remotely accessed by a computing device. Display data generated by a remotely accessed application is communicated to the computing device from the server device. The display data generated by the remotely accessed application is communicated from the computing device to another computing device associated with a user participating in the communication session hosted by the communication application. A communication application executing on the other computing device displays a user interface of the remotely accessed application by processing the display data.

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  • Integrating a web-based CRM system with a PIM client application

    Issued US US 12/820,166

    A customer relationship management (CRM) system utilizes a form definition, user interface (UI) definitions, and UI code to generate Web pages for interacting with CRM data. A CRM plug-in is configured to execute in conjunction with a personal information manager (PIM) client application and to utilize the same form definition, UI definitions, and UI code utilized by the CRM system to generate the Web-based CRM interface. The UI definitions are utilized to present UI controls for performing…

    A customer relationship management (CRM) system utilizes a form definition, user interface (UI) definitions, and UI code to generate Web pages for interacting with CRM data. A CRM plug-in is configured to execute in conjunction with a personal information manager (PIM) client application and to utilize the same form definition, UI definitions, and UI code utilized by the CRM system to generate the Web-based CRM interface. The UI definitions are utilized to present UI controls for performing CRM-related functionality in the context of a UI generated by the PIM client application. The UI code utilized by the CRM system to implement Web-based UI controls can be utilized to implement the UI controls in the context of the PIM client application. The form definition utilized by the CRM system might be utilized to display CRM fields in the UI presented by the PIM client application.

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Honors & Awards

  • Leadership Bench Program

    Microsoft

    Microsoft Leader bench program participant for accelerate the Leadership skills. This was two year program to learn about leadership from current leaders in Microsoft.

  • Microsoft Gold Star (2008)

    Microsoft

Languages

  • Hindi

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  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Punjabi

    Elementary proficiency

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