Speaker: Rohan Kumar

Rohan Kumar is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Security, Purview & Trust, leading engineering for Microsoft’s AI-powered data security, compliance, privacy, and governance solutions. His role spans product vision, strategy, technical architecture, and engineering execution for services that safeguard organizations around the world. His mission is to make the world safer by building AI-powered security systems that can outpace increasingly AI-enabled attackers. Rohan led the teams that created the AI-first security platform inside Microsoft Sentinel, designing an architecture that fuses cloud-scale telemetry ingestion, advanced detection pipelines, vector-based correlation, and LLM-powered reasoning to accelerate posture reasoning, threat detection and response.

Rohan began his Microsoft career in 1998 as a Windows OS engineer working on kernel-mode file system drivers. This early experience built a lifelong foundation in systems engineering, performance, and reliability.

In 2003, he moved into the SQL Server database engine organization, helping drive innovation across query processing, storage engines, and distributed systems. This role marked the beginning of nearly two decades of leadership across Microsoft’s Data and Analytics platforms. As the CVP for Azure Data, he led the creation and global scale-out of services including Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Synapse, Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Kusto, and Azure PostgreSQL/MySQL.

This deep background in data and systems engineering shaped his approach to security: real security requires real intelligence at massive scale.

Rohan is known for customer obsession, bold innovation, and high standards, as well as his passion for building high-performing teams, single-threaded leadership models, and a culture of clarity and accountability. He is a lifelong learner and starts every morning with running and fitness.

Rohan holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.