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Amitabh Srivastava is a corporate vice president of Windows®Core Operating System Development and a Microsoft®Distinguished Engineer. Srivastava is responsible for the development of core operating system components such as the kernel and operating system architecture, definition of development processes, and development of advanced tools to automate the development processes.
Srivastava joined Microsoft Corp. in 1997 as a senior researcher and led the Advanced Development Tools group in Microsoft Research that investigated new techniques to build innovative tools and technologies to improve the performance and quality of Microsoft software. His vision and energy led to the creation of the Programmer Productivity Research Center (PPRC) in March 1999, which he has led since its inception. Srivastava’s PPRC group, now known as Center for Software Excellence (CSE), has produced several tools and technologies that are critical to Microsoft product groups.
Before working for Microsoft, Srivastava was the chief technical officer and vice president of engineering at TracePoint Technology Inc., a company that spun off from Digital Equipment Corp. After joining Digital’s Western Research Labs (DEC WRL) in Palo Alto, Calif., in 1991, Srivastava’s research on binary code modification resulted in the creation of TracePoint. Srivastava started his career as a researcher at Texas Instruments Inc.’s research labs in Dallas, Texas, where he worked on LISP machines and the Scheme programming language.
Srivastava holds several patents and has published a variety of papers. His paper on ATOM in PLDI 1994 received the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award in June 2005. He is the author of OM, ATOM and SCOOPS software systems, which have resulted in products for Digital Equipment and Texas Instruments on the Alpha and PC platforms. He led the design and development of Vulcan, a second-generation binary transformation system, at Microsoft. Vulcan is the foundation of a wide variety of tools developed at PPRC.
Srivastava holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and a master’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University. He received the 2003–2004 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and was selected the 2004 Outstanding Engineering Alumnus of Pennsylvania State University.
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