RK
Career profile
Rakesh Kelkar
Engineering VP and Architect — OpenAI Inference Stack on Azure | Scale, Availability & System Efficiency
Greater Seattle Area
Career path.
MicrosoftVP Engineering - AI Workloads Runtime
Mar 2026 - Present
MicrosoftEngineering Director and Architect
Aug 2022 - Mar 2026
MicrosoftLead Architect
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
MicrosoftPrincipal Dev Azure AI Platform
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
MicrosoftPrincipal Dev on Bing Application Platform
Feb 2013 - Jan 2018
MicrosoftPrinciple Development Lead - Structured Data Platform
Feb 2006 - Jan 2013- LVL7 Systems
Contractor - L3 Team
Jan 2003 - Jan 2005 - Tata Consultancy Services
AST
Jan 1998 - Jan 2005