S. Somasegar is the Senior Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation. Somasegar is responsible for engineering and marketing for developer tools and services, programming languages and runtimes designed for a broad base of software developers and development teams, including the Visual Studio and Expression

Microsoft Expression Studio

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 families of products, .NET Framework

.NET Framework

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, and Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server

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. Somasegar also owns developer evangelism efforts spanning the full array of Microsoft platforms. His team also owns MSDN and TechNet

TechNet

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 online properties to enable a deep connection with the developer and IT professional audiences. In addition, Somasegar is responsible for the Server and Tools Business Global Development Centers in China, India and Israel and is the executive sponsor for the India Development Center and the Israel Research and Development Center for all of Microsoft.

In 1986, Somasegar received a bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

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 in electronics and communication engineering from Guindy Engineering College of Anna University

Anna University

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, in Chennai

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, India. In 1988, he received an M.S. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

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. He was working toward Ph.D.

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 in computer engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo when went to Microsoft.

Somasegar joined Microsoft in 1989 and contributed to eight releases of Windows before heading up the Developer Division.

In November 2006, Somasegar was awarded an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) degree by Anna University. In February 2008, he was presented the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award.

Somasegar lives in the Seattle area. He and his wife have two daughters. He frequently shares his thoughts via his blog.