Vaibhav Bhandari

Microsoft HealthVault, Program Manager 2007 - Present
I’m a program manager with strong development skills for the mobile (iOS, WP7 & Android) and web SDK; and core server platform of HealthVault. I gather requirements and define the scope of various features for the HealthVault cloud and storage platform. I work closely with business developement and marketing counterparts to define a roadmap for the product and understand our international partners' scenarios inorder to deliver a scalable and performant enterprise product.
In addition, my role involves working closely with Partners (Medical Companies) and Developers to help them design and implement their Health Solutions on HealthVault. As the owner of Developer Experience I work with our support and onboarding team to make sure we can deliver world class experience for application development on our cloud platform.
I’m active in the Healthcare IT community and I share my code and inside view of the technology on a popular blog. The breadth of my role has enabled me to establish credibility in the Healthcare industry. I have been invited to speak at popular conferences like OSCON and Health 2.0. I’m author of an upcoming Oreilly book titled "Enabling Quantitative Self With HealthVault".

Windows CE Core OS, Software Design Engineer 2005 - 2007
As a systems' software developer on Windows CE Core operating system, I owned and developed a fault tolerant operating environment to update the main operating system. Additionally I worked on improving algorithms core to image management for Windows CE and Windows Mobile OSes. I improved the performance of a diffing algorithm in one OEM case from 30 hours to 5 minutes.
Additionally in this role I engaged actively with OEMs (LG, HTC, Motorola) & Operators (Vodafone) in performance enhancement and driver troubleshooting.
I was one of the first developers to work on getting Windows Mobile 7 (Windows Phone 7) to work on reference hardware, by porting the relevant core operating system infrastructure.

Windows Powershell, Software Design Engineer 2004 - 2005
As a software engineer for Windows Powershell I wrote a package manager which allowed users to distribute and install scripts using the internet. I also developed a stress testing framework for this commandline shell. I was part of the version 1.0 of this product, and now its ubiquitous on all versions of the Windows Operating system.

The Karkhana, Chief Engineer 2005 - Present
Karkhana is a startup incubator though which I have founded and sheparded successful startup ventures like WalkMe, WiseVoter.org and vMudi. WalkMe is an open source application for Microsoft HealthVault; just months after launching it was one of the top ten most used HealthVault applications. WiseVoter is a website that reports data on Indian politicians that is both highly comprehensive and highly accurate. During the 2008 general elections it garnered significant enough attention as to be mentioned by prominent popular news media. vMudi is a mood reporting and tracking applications designed to engage users with gamification & interface seamlessly with HealthVault. It is currently available in a test version for the Windows Phone. Plans for both iPhone and Android versions are underway.

DaimlerChrysler, Telematics Systems' Developer Intern, June 2003 - Feb 2004
As a telematics engineer I worked on design, analysis and programming of an embedded module for PT Cruiser models, to enable programmable lock-tones for a car similar to ring-tones.

Invited to talk at OpenSource Conference (OSCON 2010, OSCON 2011) and Health 2.0 (2011).

Microsoft Hero of the Week (twice) & Gold Star for exceptional performance.

Awarded 4 US provisional patents.

UC Santa Cruz, CA Sep 01 - Dec 03
MS in Computer Science. Awarded UC Regents scholarship.

University Of Mumbai, India 1997 - 2001
BE in Computer Engineering. Graduated in top 5% of the class.

ICFAI, India 2000-2001
Diploma in Business Finance.

Received UC Regents Scholarship.

Awarded National Talent Search Scholarship by Government of India.