Praveen Kumar Velpuri

Praveen Kumar Velpuri is a Principal Firmware Engineer at Microsoft, leading rack-scale infrastructure and firmware architecture for next-generation AI data center platforms. With more than two decades in embedded systems and platform engineering, he has led the design and deployment of liquid- and immersion-cooled infrastructure for hyperscale AI workloads on Azure. His focus is telemetry-driven operations, Redfish-based manageability and secure firmware architecture, helping turn liquid cooling into a standardized, fleet-operable capability for AI data centers.