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Ananda Kumar Dey

Executive biography

About

Ananda Kumar Dey is an Enterprise AI, Data, and Cloud Transformation Leader with more than 25 years of global experience and a continuous 10+ year track inside Microsoft's enterprise ecosystem — spanning Microsoft's product analytics, business operations, partner ecosystem, and elite Fast Track BI program.

He currently leads Quadrant Technologies' AI Practice as Sr. Solutions Director — Head of AI Practices, where he founded the firm's AI operating model and architected QDojo, an enterprise-ready AI accelerator marketplace adopted by sales and delivery teams to compress AI engagement cycles by 200%+.

Prior to Quadrant, he served as the lead Enterprise Architect for HCL Technologies inside Microsoft's elite Fast Track Business Intelligence (FTBI) program, where he designed Azure OpenAI-powered Copilot platforms, led zero-downtime Synapse-to-Microsoft Fabric migrations, and authored AI architecture standards adopted across HCL's delivery organization. HCL's Microsoft partnership earned Partner of the Year recognition in 2022 and 2024 during this period.

A continuous track

A Microsoft ecosystem track that began at Windows Store in 2015

Six signature engagements across Microsoft's product analytics, business operations, partner ecosystem, and elite Fast Track BI program — spanning Windows Store BI, Azure IoT, Teams telemetry, MBO, FTBI, and now enterprise AI.

  1. 2025–Now

    Quadrant Technologies · Enterprise AI Practice

    Founding an Enterprise AI Practice & the QDojo Accelerator Marketplace

    Sr. Solutions Director — Head of AI Practices

    Founded the AI Practice and QDojo accelerator marketplace. Practice operational within four months.

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  2. 2023–2025

    HCL Technologies · Microsoft Fast Track BI

    Enterprise GenAI Platforms & Zero-Downtime Microsoft Fabric Modernization

    Sr. Solutions Director / Enterprise Architect — GenAI & Microsoft Fabric

    Approx. $12M revenue. Zero-downtime Synapse → Fabric migrations. AI deployment compressed from weeks to 48 hours.

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  3. 2021–2023

    Infosys · Microsoft Business Operations

    Microsoft Partner Incentive Analytics & Founding the Business Analyst Center of Excellence

    Technical Senior Project Manager — Data Analytics & Azure Architecture

    Founded the horizontal Business Analyst Center of Excellence — standardized analyst practice across Microsoft's partner-incentive analytics ecosystem.

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  4. 2018–2021

    Wipro Ltd. · Microsoft Product Infrastructure

    Microsoft Teams Telemetry Analytics & Cloud Migration at Billion-Event/Day Scale

    Program Manager — Azure Solutions, Telemetry & Data Analytics

    60M → 200M+ users supported at billion-event-per-day scale. Led a 20-engineer organization through a two-phase Azure migration.

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  5. 2017–2018

    Wipro Ltd. · Azure IoT Platform

    Azure OSVRD — IoT Digital Signage Reference Design & Microsoft Accelerate Program

    Project Manager — IoT Solution Architecture

    Delivered one of the first Azure OSVRD reference designs. Five concurrent enterprise IoT engagements across diverse industries.

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  6. 2015–2017

    Wipro Ltd. · Microsoft Product Analytics

    Windows Store Insights — Authoring the MAU & DAU Metric Definitions Microsoft Still Uses

    Project Manager / Test Engineering Manager

    Authored the MAU and DAU metric definitions that became foundational to Microsoft's Windows Store reporting — later extended to Teams telemetry.

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Areas of expertise

  • Enterprise AI Transformation & GenAI Operating Models
  • Microsoft Fabric Architecture & Migration
  • Azure OpenAI & Copilot Platforms
  • Azure Data Platforms (Synapse, Databricks, Data Factory)
  • AI Governance & Cost Optimization
  • Enterprise Architecture & Reference Designs
  • AI Operating Models & Practice Establishment

Recognition

  • Microsoft Fast Track BI (FTBI) program — elite partner technical leadership
  • HCLTech awarded Microsoft Partner of the Year, 2022 and 2024; finalist 2023
  • Guest speaker at Microsoft on Generative AI and OpenAI workflow transformation (September 2023)

See the full recognition record and speaking history.

Thought leadership

Published essays on Generative AI strategy, enterprise AI adoption, and the future of human–AI collaboration — on HCLTech's engineering blog and LinkedIn — surface a consistent thesis: enterprise AI value comes from operating-model design, not model selection. See the published archive.

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