Sid Ray

Sid is currently a Principal Engineering Manager in Microsoft managing a distributed service. He is a result oriented engineering leader, with 18+ years of experience in leading and building high performance global distributed teams, delivering high quality software with lean, agile continuous improvement methodologies, OKRs alongwith operational excellence.

Sid was a founding member of Cisco's Cloud Computing team, with patented work recognized among the top 3 innovations in Cloud Computing at Cisco: Policy-driven automatic redundant fabric placement mechanism for virtual data centers. Sid was also involved in the core design and development of Azure controller (Apollo) for computation partitioning. The work has been featured in New York Times.

Sid has interviewed 200+ candidates, reviewed 1000+ resumes over the course of his career in Microsoft, Cisco, Adobe, Nokia and startups. He has experience interviewing individual contributors and engineering managers. He can help you practice the following types of interviews: behavioral, coding, system design, algorithms, career advancement and leadership coaching. Sid is passionate about helping people with interviews and has successfully helped 20+ people land roles at FAANGM companies.