Niraj Jayant

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States9 yrs experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led engineering teams at Microsoft AI.
Developed innovative AI products and features.
Passionate about making AI accessible to everyone.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineering leader with a strong focus on AI product development.

Contact

nirajjayant@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementAi Product DevelopmentProduct ManagementEngineering LeadershipProduct DevelopmentSoftware EngineeringTeam ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

AIAutomationCC++Data AnalysisHTMLJavaJavaScriptMachine LearningMatlabMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft WordPowerPointProject Management

About

I am an Engineering leader at Microsoft AI building 0-1 products (Pages, Assistant, Code execution) and leading our evals team. I am passionate about AI and the improvements it can make to everyone's lives. Please reach out if you are interested in working with me or want to brainstorm ideas on how to make AI better. Outside of my tech work I am fascinated by Artificial Intelligence and participate in hackathons to continue to develop my skills. I am also pursuing my advanced sommelier degree through the WSET program to help make wine less intimidating for everyone.

Experience

Microsoft ai

Member of Technical Staff, Engineering Manager

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Driving innovation on Microsoft Copilot by leading a team of engineers focused on model response quality, 0-1 products, and mobile and web foundations

Microsoft OfficeData AnalysisProject ManagementEngineering ManagementAI Product Development

Human interest

2 roles

Director of Product and Engineering

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas, United States

Director of Product Management and Engineering for our Experiences org (all personas interacting with the Human Interest platform) and Director of Engineering for our Application Platforms org (shared services and tooling for our internal engineering teams)

Product ManagementEngineering Leadership

Director of Engineering

May 2023 – Feb 2024 · 9 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

Led the Experience and App Platform organization to empower individuals at all companies save for their retirement. Managed a team of 28 engineers and 3 Product Managers

Engineering LeadershipProduct Development

Bolt

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2018 – Apr 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

Managed our Accounts team at Bolt
Previously Manager for Financial Products team at Bolt

Software EngineeringTeam Management

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Jun 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Mountain View, CA

Software Engineer on the PowerPoint team. Managed 3 summer interns and served as the Intern social coordinator for 80 interns at the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus. Developed a Machine Learning hackathon project to predict Office user's next behaviors and won a smaller award in company-wide hackathon. Lead the team in a convergence project for iOS codebase and delivered 2 stretch goal features (Real-Time Presence and Real-Time Typing) for the PowerPoint app. Currently working on new features for PowerPoint's Designer feature which uses Machine Learning to format user's slides based on proven design principles.

Machine LearningSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Software Engineer Intern

May 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Redmond, WA

Worked as an intern for three summers.
2015 - Collaborated with Project Management to build a new Comments Task Pane for Excel for iPad, delivering the top requested feature for millions of iOS consumers. Helped lead the intern program and served as a formal mentor to new interns.
2014 - Developed automation infrastructure for Excel for iOS. Designed new features and executed implementation. Wrote test plans and participated in test strategic planning in order to meet project ship deadlines.
2013- PowerPoint for the Mac. Worked as a software test engineer in Objective-C, wrote automation verification scripts in codebase and developed test plans. Independently developed a stand alone application tool for performance testing and analysis.

Azul mobile

Software Development Engineer

Aug 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Austin, TX

Worked for the Azul Mobile start up doing front-end iOS work for both our consumer and merchant applications. I also worked on the backend writing Python test scripts and also developing in Javascript for the second iteration of our consumer application. I scheduled meetings with restaurant managers and student leaders to drive engagement of our application.

PythonJavaScriptSoftware Development