10 Renowned Tamilians in America

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S. Somasegar

S. Somasegar is the Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division at Microsoft Corporation. Till September 2011, he served as the Senior Vice President of the company.

He 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 families of products, .NET Framework, and Team Foundation Server.

Somasegar started the India Development Center in Hyderabad and the Microsoft Canada Development Center in Vancouver.

He was honoured with the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award in  2008.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from College of Engineering, Anna University and an M.S. in computer engineering from Louisiana State University.

He is the owner of four patents and before joining as the head of the developers’ division, Somasegar had worked on eight different operating system releases.

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