Amar Dhamdhere
Principal PM, Microsoft
Amar Dhamdhere is listed as Principal PM, Microsoft. Amar is scheduled to speak at Microsoft Ignite 2026 on 18 November 2026.
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About
Amar Dhamdhere is a Principal PdM Manager at Microsoft, leading product management for Azure's Cobalt-based Arm VMs and the broader portfolio of Optimized VMs—spanning Network, Local and Remote Storage, and Memory-Optimized SKUs across Intel, AMD, and Arm silicon. With over a decade in the semiconductor and cloud industries, Amar has spent his career at the intersection of CPU innovation and cloud-scale infrastructure. Prior to Microsoft, he led Product Management at Ampere Computing, where he helped launch the flagship Ampere Altra and Altra Max Arm64 processors, and earlier held roles at Intel working closely with hyperscale cloud customers. At Microsoft, Amar drove the launch of Azure's first Arm-based VMs powered by Ampere, and now leads the rollout of Microsoft's own Cobalt 100 Arm VMs alongside Azure's Network, Storage, and Memory-Optimized VM families, delivering breakthrough performance, scalability, and cost efficiency to Azure customers worldwide.
Upcoming
Microsoft Ignite 2026 17 November 2026 – 20 November 2026
- Cobalt 200: Delivering Azure's best performance and efficiency Speaker · 18 November 2026
Spoke alongside
People who have shared a session with Amar at events on B2DB.
- Pat Stemen VP · Microsoft 1 shared session
- Vadim Filanovsky Member of Technical Staff · OpenAI 1 shared session
Others from Microsoft
- Christian Sarafidis Chief Executive EMEA Financial Services 13 sessions
- Tyler Pichach Global Head of AI Strategy and GTM for Payments and Banking 12 sessions
- Justin Garrett Principal Program Manager Lead, DevRel, Azure Experiences & Ecosystems, Cloud + AI Engineering 10 sessions
- Karuana Gatimu Director, Scale Experience Group 10 sessions
- Heather Cook Principal PM Manager, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group 9 sessions
- Nitya Narasimhan Senior Cloud Advocate (AI) 9 sessions
- Brad Smith Vice Chair and President 8 sessions
- Lee Stott Principal Cloud Advocate - Core AI 8 sessions
- Lorena Mora Senior Product Manager | Microsoft Intune & Windows 8 sessions
- Sonia Cuff Cloud Advocate Lead - Cloud Native & Linux Advocacy 8 sessions
- Bethany Jepchumba Developer Relations 7 sessions
- Dona Sarkar Chief Troublemaker - Copilot and AI Extensibility 7 sessions