After 9 years at Microsoft, I now lead the engineering team at Circles.Life. AMA!

NOTE: This AMA has ended. Find the Q&A with Harsh in the comments.

I’m Harsh Mittal, head of engineering for Circles.Life. Based in Singapore, I lead a department consisting of teams that look after Circles-X Telco operating system, ecommerce systems, mobile applications, devops, and QA.

Circles.Life was born with the vision of revolutionizing the telco industry by giving power back to customers. We apply a cloud-based business model and deliver a highly customizable mobile service (voice, data, roaming) that users can manage through the CirclesCare app.

Before Circles.Life, I spent a major part of my career at Microsoft, both in India and the US. I contributed to many products during my nine-year stint, including Azure (cloud), Exchange (email), and the Microsoft System center (data center management). In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my eight-year-old daughter and travelling: I have been to more than 30 countries.

Please ask me anything! Some of the things I’d love to discuss:

• What it’s like to be an engineer at Circles.Life
• How I got into this career
• How we are changing the telco industry
• The problems that engineers, QA, and developers team try to solve
• What it takes to build a top-notch engineering team