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Microsoft.

Enterprise AI platforms, agent governance, and resilient orchestration.

Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer, Copilot Studio

Dec 2024–present
  • Lead a five-engineer Copilot Studio team delivering enterprise agent-governance capabilities, driving technical direction, architectural decisions, day-to-day execution, and delivery quality.
  • Interview engineering candidates and coach engineers through design reviews, implementation decisions, and proofs of concept; helped grow the broader engineering group from four to 10+ engineers.
  • Partner with engineering management to shape multi-release roadmaps, align priorities, coordinate dependencies, and translate strategic objectives into executable plans.
  • Led the agent runtime's evolution toward queue- and message-driven orchestration, improving platform durability and operational resilience.

Software Engineer II, Industry AI

Mar 2022–Dec 2024
  • Helped architect an Azure RAG platform for complex financial reports, spanning document ingestion, OCR, visual understanding, retrieval, and answer generation; coordinated architecture and delivery across global engineering teams to deliver secure, production-grade capabilities.
  • Owned platform scalability and reliability, addressing bottlenecks across Azure Document Intelligence, AI Search, and vision-model calls by redesigning orchestration around Durable Functions with parallel processing, configurable retries, and failure tracking.
  • Led development of the Copilot Toolkit, including Prompt Test and Prompt Cost Optimizer, enabling teams to evaluate LLM stability, regression risk, and operating cost.
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