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Ashish Chhabria

Ashish Chhabria

Principal Product Manager, Azure Event Hubs — messaging & event streaming

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Seattle, Washington, United States
Joined December 2025
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Summary

Experienced product leader in cloud messaging and event streaming: Ashish has led product work across Azure Service Bus and Event Hubs and more recently appears as a Principal Product Manager working on Event Hubs and developer tooling. He authors platform announcements (Event Hubs Data Explorer, geo-replication) and drives features focused on developer experience, operational tooling, and cross-region resiliency. microsoft+1
Developer-facing integrations and Java/JMS expertise: He has publicly presented on JMS 2.0 over AMQP for Azure Service Bus (podcast, video and sample repos) and contributed JMS samples to the Azure Service Bus sample repository, demonstrating a focus on making messaging easy for enterprise Java developers. youtube+2
Bridging product and engineering with practical guidance: At Confluent he produced best-practice guidance (e.g., integrating Confluent with AWS Lambda) and at Microsoft he combines platform product work with public-facing docs and talks — indicating a strength in translating platform capabilities into actionable developer patterns. confluent+1
Technical foundation and quantitative background: Ashish holds a Masters in Computer Science from Columbia University and previously worked as a quantitative associate in secured financing at Morgan Stanley — a combination that contributes to data-driven product decisions and systems thinking. getprog

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Geo-Replication is Here! Now generally available for Event Hubs Premium & Dedicated

July 1, 2025

Announcement and overview of geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs (GA), describing replication modes, monitoring and RPO options for cross-region resiliency.

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Announcing the Event Hubs Data Explorer: a handy tool for getting started and debugging

September 1, 2024

TechCommunity post introducing the Event Hubs Data Explorer — a portal tool for producing/consuming events for debugging and onboarding Event Hubs users.

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Building Event-Driven Architectures: Top 5 Best Practices

September 1, 2023

Practical guidance for integrating Confluent (Apache Kafka) with AWS Lambda, covering connector vs native event-source mapping, batching, idempotency, and error handling for reliable event-driven architectures.

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Delivers technical talks and conference sessions on cloud messaging and developer integrations. sessionize+2