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Sonia Kulkarni

Sonia Kulkarni

Principal Product Manager focused on Azure Functions and Office experiences

Seattle, Washington, United States
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Joined March 2026
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Summary

Product leader focused on serverless developer experiences: Sonia has held multiple product roles at Microsoft centered on Azure Functions and Office web experiences, driving strategy and roadmaps to improve developer and end-user productivity. theorg+2
Strong technical and engineering background: Sonia began her career as a software engineer and holds a Master's in Computer Engineering, bringing technical fluency to product decisions and enabling close collaboration with engineering teams. theorg
Community-facing communicator and advocate: She writes technical and product-oriented posts, speaks at developer events (Microsoft Reactor, community standups, Gophercon), and engages with language communities (Go, Java) to influence product direction and gather feedback. medium+2
Focus on improving developer observability and language support: Sonia has worked on and publicized investments in language support (Java, Go) and telemetry (Application Insights / distributed tracing) for Azure Functions to reduce cold start and improve developer diagnostics. microsoft+1

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

A faster way to find your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files online

March 1, 2026

Microsoft 365 Insider blog post announcing a new search experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the web authored by Sonia Kulkarni while a Principal Product Manager on Office Shared Services and Experiences.

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Request more access in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the web

July 1, 2025

Microsoft 365 Insider blog post describing a new feature enabling users to request elevated permissions directly within Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the web, authored by Sonia Kulkarni.

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Java on Azure Functions – 2023 Update

October 1, 2023

Overview of investments for Java on Azure Functions in 2023, including dependency injection support, Application Insights distributed tracing for Java, Azure SQL bindings, Durable Functions enhancements, and cold start improvements.

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Azure Functions 2022 recap and 2023 sneak peek

January 1, 2023

Recap of major Azure Functions releases and investments in 2022 and a preview of planned work for 2023, covering language support, Durable Functions, programming model improvements, integration with event sources, and performance/scaling improvements.

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My first Gophercon..

August 1, 2019

Personal Medium post describing early work as PM for Azure Functions, exploration of the Go ecosystem, and experiences at Gophercon 2019 while advocating for Go on Azure Functions.

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Hobbies

Active participant in developer conferences and communities (e.g., Gophercon) and a curious lifelong learner. medium+1