Hartford Business Journal

56 Hartford Business Journal • July 25, 2016 www.HartfordBusiness.com Christa Allen Emma Asante Philip Barnett Troy Bataille Daniel R. Canavan Johnny Carrier Michael Carucci Suzi Craig Danielle M. Cyr Alissa K. DeJonge Brian Ferney Alicia Flynn Ryan J. Friedman Jason T. Gutcheon Jennifer L. Healy Edward J. Heath Brian P. Henry Jason Hoagland Maria A. Loitz Sara M. Lombard Dana Neves Scott A. Margolis Jim Martin Jeffrey Moyer Victor Mushkatin Dan O'Brien Rene Alejandro Ortega Michele Palma Lisa Petachi Anatoliy Ravin Jeff Roux Kevin W. Santini Daniel A. Schwartz Amanda May Sirica David Skoczulek Tiffany Stevens Benjamin Sweet Al Tebbetts Kimalee Williams 2010 Winner List: Past Classes: 2010 Tech guru Mushkatin continues innovating By John A. Lahtinen Special to the Hartford Business Journal Y ou could say that 2010 was a pretty big year for Victor Mushkatin. After being named a 40 Under Forty winner, the application performance monitoring software company Mushkatin founded in 2004 — AVIcode — was acquired by tech giant Microsoft to complement its cloud-monitoring offering. AVIcode's software, AVIcode Intercept Studio, is now fully incorporated into Microsoft's enterprise management software, System Center Operations Manager, which enables administrators to monitor operations, services, applications and devices all from a single console. "That software is the key component of the appli- cation performance monitoring solution Microsoft offers for its customers," Mushkatin said. Mushkatin, developer of one of the first secure bank-client applications in Russia back in 1996, has also authored several patents in critical application exception detection, diagnostic and performance management algorithms. These days, Mushkatin is based at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and is involved in defining the service monitoring and diagnos- tics strategy for the company as a group pro- gram manager. "Expanding on the technology we had in AVI- code, now I'm responsible for delivering a cloud service called Application Insight," he said. "I want to deliver a service that is disruptive and innovative. I want every developer to recommend Application Insights to at least two of their friends." Mushkatin said he is passionate about the work he does. Whereas in the past, Mushkatin says, Microsoft's goal was having a PC in every home, now the compa- ny is looking to pave the way for every developer to be unconstrained with storage and compute limitations. "We're making it super simple to engage develop- ers and operations in a constructive dialogue about services being supported," Mushkatin said. "We're breaking the organizational silos making data-driv- en decision process a reality." Even with his busy schedule, Mushkatin finds time to explore new challenges outside of the office, including learning to sail a couple of years ago with the goal of participating in the Vic-Maui Yacht Inter- national Yacht Race in 2018. Contested every two years, the Vic-Maui starts in June or July off Victoria, British Columbia and finishes near Lahaina, Maui — a distance of nearly 2,400 nautical miles. The race is the longest offshore sailing race off the west coast of North America. "There is a lot more to learn and lot to prepare," he said. "I'm excited to make this happen." Mushkatin, developer of one of the first secure bank- client applications in Russia back in 1996, has also authored several patents. Now Title: Group Program Manager Company: Microsoft, Redmond, Wash. Age: 42 Then Title: CTO Company: AVIcode, Hartford Age: 36 PROFILE: Victor Mushkatin Mushkatin, 2010 Mushkatin, today Class Photo: Past Party Pics: The photo shoot for the 2010 special edition was held at Riverfront Recapture's Boathouse in Hartford. Winners at the networking reception: (left to right) Johnny Carrier, J.F.C. Endeavors, division of by Carrier; Troy Bataille, Halloran & Sage LLP; Kevin Santini, Santini Homes Inc. On the Cover:

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