Silvia Doomra — Technical Program Manager

Technical Program Manager · Greater Seattle Area

Silvia
Doomra

Dynamic TPM with 15+ years driving global product delivery and operational excellence at Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services. Transforming complex, high-ambiguity challenges into strategic, measurable outcomes across privacy, cloud, and data.

“Change is the law, Growth is optional: Choose wisely.”
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Silvia Doomra — Senior Technical Program Manager
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Measurable Outcomes

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Built safeguards for business users data, avoiding an adverse action (>9 figures $) proposed by the European Commission.

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Spearheaded migration of 90% of privacy workflows at Meta to the Federation Platform, scaling usage from Privacy to Risk.

3

Launched Microsoft’s Data Residency Program — 100% global regulatory compliance for Azure across seven high-priority markets including Singapore, Brazil, China, and the EU (Schrems II).

4

Orchestrated the successful Micro Regions launch at Microsoft, delivering mission-critical resilience and unlocking new Azure markets.

5

Conceived and executed the Azure-to-Azure Workload Migration Program (now Azure Resource Move), enabling seamless migrations for thousands of enterprise customers.

6

Delivered seven high-impact features for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL in six months, directly increasing customer retention.

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Founded and scaled the AWS Database Blog to #4 rank among all AWS technical blogs, growing community reach by 400%.

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Open-sourced elastic database client libraries — the first open-source launch by the SQL organization at Microsoft.

Professional Experience

Meta

Oct 2022 – Present

Privacy Areas – Competition – Technical Program Manager Lead

Sept 2024 – Present
  • Led organizational privacy strategy for Competitive Data Use (CDU), Cross-product Data Practices, and Cross-Promotion, influencing compliance for multiple product suites.
  • Delivered AI guidance enabling an AI-first approach, accelerating product velocity by 10×.
  • Built safeguards for business users data, avoiding an adverse action (>9 figures $) proposed by the European Commission.

Regulatory Response Foundations – Technical Program Manager

Oct 2022 – Sept 2024
  • Drove adoption and migration of 90% of privacy workflows to the Federation Platform, scaling usage from Privacy to Risk.
  • Led Privacy workstream quality initiative, aligning work efforts to Meta’s evolving business priorities and regulatory requirements.
  • Initiated and facilitated the TPM Knowledge Sharing Series, upskilling the privacy program management community company-wide.

Microsoft

June 2008 – Sept 2022

Geo Expansion & Data Residency in Azure Privacy – Principal TPM Manager

July 2018 – Sept 2022
  • Founded and directed the multi-million-dollar Data Residency Program, delivering global cloud compliance in seven new markets (Singapore, Brazil South, Hong Kong, EU Data Boundary / Schrems II).
  • Personally influenced executive and C-level decision-making to accelerate product readiness across 500+ services.
  • Led Azure region decommissioning and cross-region migration, achieving zero customer attrition in all transitions.

Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale – Senior Program Manager

March 2015 – June 2016
  • Open-sourced elastic scale libraries — the first open-source launch by the SQL organization.
  • Drove developer adoption on GitHub and elevated community engagement.
  • Acted as technical ambassador in industry forums, influencing the Azure SQL product roadmap.

Windows Ecosystem Partner & Customer Engagement – Program Manager Lead

January 2013 – March 2015
  • Led global device certification and compliance for Windows and Windows Phone, ensuring 100% regulatory and Mobile Operator approval for 50+ OEM SKUs.
  • Streamlined problem escalation and partner resolution for high-impact launches, including Reliance Jio’s national deployment.

Visual Studio Extensibility – SDET II

April 2011 – January 2013
  • Led a globally distributed QA team, automating stress testing frameworks and reducing execution time.
  • Designed automation framework, resulting in 50% reduction of test code.

Remote Desktop Licensing – SDET

June 2008 – April 2011
  • Created next-generation test automation framework, improving code coverage and execution speed by 60%.
  • Authored over 30 technical posts for MSDN blogs, cultivating sustained engagement in Microsoft’s developer community.

Amazon Web Services

July 2016 – July 2018

Amazon RDS PostgreSQL – Sr. Product Manager

July 2016 – July 2018
  • Owned and executed the full product roadmap for RDS PostgreSQL, increasing YoY revenue by double digits.
  • Orchestrated large-scale customer migrations from on-premises/Oracle to RDS, launching seven new features (including logical replication, FedRAMP, HIPAA) in six months.
  • Represented and evangelized RDS for PostgreSQL at EBCs, customer meetings, partner summits, and conferences.

AWS Database Blog Owner

July 2016 – July 2018
  • Conceived, built, and scaled AWS Database Blog, setting editorial vision and growing it to a top-4 AWS technical blog.
  • Enlarged community reach by over 400% through strategic content planning and execution.

Key Projects

Skills & Expertise

Program & Product Management

Cross-functional Leadership Strategic Planning Stakeholder Alignment Risk Management Agile / Scrum OKRs Roadmap Ownership

Cloud & Infrastructure

Microsoft Azure Amazon Web Services Data Residency Cloud Migration Multi-region Architecture Compliance Engineering

Privacy & Regulatory

GDPR CCPA Regulatory Response Data Governance Privacy Strategy Risk Assessment Zero Trust EU Data Boundary

Data & Engineering

Database Systems PostgreSQL SQL Open Source Developer Relations Technical Writing Test Automation

Recommendations

“I had the pleasure to have Silvia as part of my team during my time in the Azure Privacy. She is goal oriented and driven by goals. She worked on one of most complex projects (Data Residency) and faced each challenge as a new opportunity to learn. Silvia grasps new concepts quickly and is excellent communicator to a wide range of audience — execs, engineers and lawyers. She is also one of the most responsible, kind and hard working managers. She will be an asset to any organization.”

Chandra Achalla

Manager, Azure Privacy — Microsoft

“I had the great pleasure and fortune working with Silvia as a partner and later as a peer on the same team. She is a great leader who is empathetic and cares about growing her team. She has great strategic insights and is well respected across the organization for privacy and data residency. She is easy to work with and owns her solution end to end.”

LinkedIn Colleague

Partner & Peer, Privacy Team

9 total recommendations on LinkedIn

Published Articles

Volunteer Work

Council Member

Women and Allies of Azure Global (WAAG)

Jan 2020 – Present

Panelist – Navigating the Balancing Act of Priorities and Time

Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), University of Washington

Mar 2018 – Present

TEALS CS Teacher

North Quincy High School

Aug 2015 – Present

Judge

Microsoft Imagine Cup

Apr 2013 – Present

Mentor & Sponsor

Global Give Back Circle × Magic Bus

Jan 2016 – Present

Teacher

ILP (Indian Literacy Project), Hyderabad

May 2010 – Jul 2010

Education

Master of Science

University of San Francisco

Current

MBA, Product Management

University of Phoenix

2012 – 2014

BE, Information Technology

Punjab Engineering College (D.U.), Chandigarh, India

2004 – 2008

Certifications

Executive Presence for Women

LinkedIn Learning · Nov 2018

Dale Carnegie Course: Skills for Success

Dale Carnegie · Oct 2014

Languages

English Hindi Punjabi French

Open to New Opportunities

Available for senior TPM and product leadership roles, speaking engagements, mentorship, and collaboration on privacy and cloud initiatives.