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. "Soma" Somasegar is corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation. The Developer Division is primarily responsible for all the developer-related languages, tools and platforms within Microsoft, including Visual Studio, Web Platform and Tools, .NET Framework, Common Language Runtime (CLR) and other .NET Developer Platform technologies. In addition, he oversees the India Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad, India.
Somasegar began his career at Microsoft in 1989 as a software design engineer, and worked on eight different operating system releases: OS/2 2.0, NT family of releases, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. Most recently, he served as corporate vice president of the Windows Engineering Services and Solutions group within the Windows Division. Prior to that he was the general manager for the NT releases.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Somasegar was a graduate student in Computer Engineering at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He holds a master's in Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University (1988) and a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from Guindy Engineering College, Anna University, India (1986). Somasegar and his wife Akila have two daughters, Sahana and Archana.
Somasegar frequently shares his thoughts with the developer community via a blog on http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar . | 