Technical Program Manager · Greater Seattle Area
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.”
Built safeguards for business users data, avoiding an adverse action (>9 figures $) proposed by the European Commission.
Spearheaded migration of 90% of privacy workflows at Meta to the Federation Platform, scaling usage from Privacy to Risk.
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).
Orchestrated the successful Micro Regions launch at Microsoft, delivering mission-critical resilience and unlocking new Azure markets.
Conceived and executed the Azure-to-Azure Workload Migration Program (now Azure Resource Move), enabling seamless migrations for thousands of enterprise customers.
Delivered seven high-impact features for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL in six months, directly increasing customer retention.
Founded and scaled the AWS Database Blog to #4 rank among all AWS technical blogs, growing community reach by 400%.
Open-sourced elastic database client libraries — the first open-source launch by the SQL organization at Microsoft.
Oct 2022 – Present
June 2008 – Sept 2022
July 2016 – July 2018
Led the EU Data Boundary initiative ensuring Microsoft services meet European data residency and sovereignty requirements under Schrems II.
Ensure Microsoft and its services meet data residency requirements for various geographies — Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong, China, and more.
Authored and published comprehensive Azure cross-region migration guidance on GitHub, enabling enterprise customers to migrate workloads seamlessly.
Founded and scaled the AWS Database Blog from scratch to a #4-ranked AWS technical blog, growing developer community reach by 400%+.
“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.”
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.”
Partner & Peer, Privacy Team
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Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), University of Washington
North Quincy High School
Microsoft Imagine Cup
Global Give Back Circle × Magic Bus
ILP (Indian Literacy Project), Hyderabad
University of San Francisco
CurrentUniversity of Phoenix
2012 – 2014Punjab Engineering College (D.U.), Chandigarh, India
2004 – 2008Executive Presence for Women
Dale Carnegie Course: Skills for Success