Hi, I’m Sparsh. San Francisco.
A good idea can still stall. People need a reason to trust your product, back your decision or understand what’s changing. Let’s work through what will get them on board.
Product leadership at Salesforce. Earlier, engineering at Microsoft. A perspective shaped by civic work and community.
Experience across work, learning and community
Product leadership
Azure · earlier
MBA
UW–Madison · CS
Co-writing
Co-presenter
Co-presenter
Awards judge
Mentoring alumni
Mentoring
Amsterdam
Washington DCSpeaking
Your audience has heard the predictions. What should they trust—and what should they do next?
As event VP and panel moderator, I brought Robert Nishihara and Nik Spirin into a discussion of AI infrastructure.
View the panel record ↗Joint IBM / Red Hat sessionsEngineering & product
A product can work technically and still be hard to trust. My engineering experience at Microsoft and product leadership at Salesforce inform how I approach usefulness and control.
Engineering, product leadership and co-writing.
CES Innovation Awards 2026 judge.
Amsterdam · civic proposal
Interviews with Amsterdam residents shaped Mokum: our team’s proposal to make AI’s privacy and transparency easier to understand.
Washington DC · policy
In Washington, DC, I prepared an AI, identity-protection and employment briefing for Representative Jay Obernolte’s office and co-wrote a privacy and regulation paper.
The Washington Campus · Washington, DC, 2025.
Giving time and support. Staying involved in the communities and arts I care about.
₹350,000
Toward solar-panel installations through 
Bharat Vikas Parishad.
$35,600
Microsoft GIVE event totals I helped mobilize.
240 hours
Microsoft GIVE event totals, alongside the fundraising.
300 hours
100 clean-energy hours and 200 humanitarian-service hours.
My Performing Arts Workshop project focused on board engagement and strategic planning. Alumni-board involvement includes Bay Area Badgers.
Other service includes United Way of King County’s Emerging Leaders programme and earlier 
volunteering.
Core-team experience with Aa Dekhen Zara in Madison; community life around Dil Se Rave in San Francisco and Mehfil Nights in Seattle.
My arts involvement includes A.C.T.’s Rising Leaders events and San Francisco Ballet’s Young Patrons Circle community.
Career mentoring
You’ve built technical depth. Now you need to show how it translates into product decisions or leadership.
I’ve made the move from engineering at Microsoft to product leadership at Salesforce. I mentor people working through their own next step.
15 sessions · 450 minutesI’ve also mentored Stanford alumni and IEEE innovators.
Beyond the Backlog · 2025
An 83-minute conversation about career changes and difficult decisions.
Listen to the conversation ↗I invest personally in AI, robotics and industrial technology. My investing and advising experience spans:
I’ve also been involved with 
TiE.
Delhi → Madison → Berkeley
Delhi Technological University, computer science at UW–Madison, and a completed MBA at Berkeley Haas.
A 2017 internship at 
preceded engineering and product work at Microsoft.
I founded Playground, an energy and robotics initiative, in 2014. Explore earlier projects ↗
From the blog · October 11, 2026
Trying to get a team behind a decision—or make a conversation useful? Tell me where people are getting stuck. We can start there.
