About me
Ramya Chitrakar is Corporate Vice President for core Security products, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Defender for Identity all part of Microsoft Threat Protection and drives product strategy and engineering execution. Collectively, these products protect hundreds of millions of users.
Her leadership philosophy and core principles for the engineering team include exceptional technical expertise, collaboration, customer focus and growth mindset. She creates a workspace with psychological safety and a culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging and most importantly, are happy and excited to come to work every day.
Outside of work, Ramya is married to a tech entrepreneur and has two children. When not working or participating in outdoor activities like hiking and biking, you can find Ramya indulging in German sports cars – she thoroughly enjoys driving!