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  "markdown": "Senior Technical Program Manager; Product Manager for Azure Maps Geospatial APIs.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farazsiddiqui2025\n\n## What Faraz builds\n\n- [Azure Maps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/azure-maps.md), graded B, 68/100, in Maps, geocoding \u0026 places. Microsoft Azure's mapping service. Its REST APIs at `atlas.microsoft.com` cover geocoding, reverse geocoding, place search, routing with traffic, map tiles, time zones and weather, with access by subscription key, SAS token or Microsoft Entra ID. Senior Technical Program Manager; Product Manager for Azure Maps Geospatial APIs, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Achint Srivastava](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/achint-srivastava/), VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author\n- [Bill Gates](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/bill-gates/), Co-founder, Microsoft\n- [Brandon Werner](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brandon-werner/), Principal Product Architect; Agent ID creator\n- [Dan Hellem](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dan-hellem/), Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps\n- [Darrel Miller](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/darrel-miller/), Partner API Architect\n- [Dong Li](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dong-li/), Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents\n- [Eric Imasogie](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eric-imasogie/), Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner\n- [Gary Pretty](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/gary-pretty/), Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Copilot Studio\n- [Julie Strauss](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/julie-strauss/), Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations\n- [Paul Allen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/paul-allen/), Co-founder, Microsoft\n- [Pieter de Bruin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/pieter-de-bruin/), Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations\n- [Sandeep K Sen](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/sandeep-k-sen/), Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI\n- [Shawn Henry](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/shawn-henry/), Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework\n- [Tianqi Zhang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tianqi-zhang/), Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team\n- [Vamshidhar Kommineni](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/vamshidhar-kommineni/), Group Product Manager, Azure Storage\n- [Yury Semikhatsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/yury-semikhatsky/), Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Faraz Siddiqui?\n\nFaraz Siddiqui is senior Technical Program Manager; Product Manager for Azure Maps Geospatial APIs.\n\n### What does Microsoft make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Azure Maps from Microsoft. Microsoft Azure's mapping service. Its REST APIs at atlas.microsoft.com cover geocoding, reverse geocoding, place search, routing with traffic, map tiles, time zones and weather, with access by subscription key, SAS token or Microsoft Entra ID.\n\n### How are Faraz's tools graded?\n\nAzure Maps is graded B, 68 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/farazsiddiqui2025/details/experience/\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/farazsiddiqui2025\n- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/bill-gates\n- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/verified-accounts\n- https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/\n- https://x.com/Microsoft/with_replies\n- https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/microsoft-azure/\n- https://x.com/Azure\n- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/\n- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us\n- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-maps\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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