Gaurav Goyal

VP of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Led AI integration for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Reduced release cycle from monthly to weekly.
Achieved 99.5%+ reliability for core services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai IntegrationRelease ManagementIos DevelopmentCloud OptimizationReact NativeFile Sync InfrastructureAndroid DevelopmentJava Ee

Other Skills

Back-End Web DevelopmentCore JavaCross-Geo CollaborationData StructuresDatabasesFirebaseFront-end DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentHibernateJEEJava Enterprise EditionJavaScriptKotlinPerformance OptimizationProduct Ownership

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Engineering Leader driving AI Integration and Copilot initiatives within Microsoft 365 Copilot App. 12+ years of experience including Engineering Leadership, People Management, and building high-performance Mobile (iOS/Android) enterprise, consumer applications. Leadership & Stretergy: People Management, Agile Delivery, Release Management, Cross-Geo Collaboration, Strategic Planning Languages: Java, Kotlin, Swift, React Native, C++, Android, iOS

Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos

AI/Product Ownership: Owns the M365 Copilot iOS app fundamentals, delivered core Copilot scenarios including conversations, GPTs, and Pages integration, directly supporting Microsoft’s AI-first strategy.
Platform & Reliability: Championed the AI Hub telemetry strategy, and led the architectural effort to transform the app into a platform, enabling it to host Copilot scenarios from global partners. Achieving 99.5%+ reliability for core services and enabling critical cross-module engagement metrics.
Engineering Velocity & Release Management: Served as Release owner and cut the M365 Copilot release cycle from monthly to weekly by implementing quality gates, centralized monitoring, and streamlined partner communication, significantly increasing engineering velocity.
Performance & Stability: Drove AppShell re-architecture, enabling modular design, and reducing app boot time by 30%, Reduced combined crash and hang rates from 0.8% to <0.4% across multiple GA releases.
People Management: Led a team of 12 engineers, driving talent development and maintaining high team health. Drove a 95% team engagement/satisfaction rate and earning recognition for coaching and development.

AI IntegrationProduct OwnershipRelease ManagementCross-Geo CollaborationPerformance Optimization

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

Designed and implemented the file sync infrastructure for OneDrive Tab within M365 Copilot iOS. Optimized cloud files sync infrastructure, reducing the number of service calls by 60% and improving DB performance latency by ~50%.
Led the SP Page area, showcasing SharePoint news within the app; used React Native with native iOS and Android technologies (Swift, Kotlin, Java).
Implemented "Instant Article" (using Google AMP), improving rendering of SharePoint web pages within the app, achieving an ~70% gain in load time (under one second).
Served as Site Reliability Engineer for SharePoint, reducing the critical issues flow from 200 issues per month to <50 issues per month within three months.

File Sync InfrastructureCloud OptimizationReact NativeiOS DevelopmentAndroid Development

Software Engineer 2

May 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Swoo

Android Developer

Nov 2017 – Apr 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

A Live gaming Application with 10+ million downloads and rating of 4.2
➢ Worked upon building multiple games e.g. Trivia, Bingo, Poker. Also, worked upon other app optimisations including performance and memory improvements.
➢ Tech Stack: Kotlin, LiveData, Room, Paging, Coroutines, Android Architecture component, Data Binding etc.

KotlinAndroid DevelopmentPerformance Optimization

Start-up (stealth mode) - fintech

Android Developer

Feb 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for end to end product development (Tech: RxJava, Expresso, Firebase)

RxJavaFirebaseAndroid Development

Kuliza

Mobile Application Developer

Oct 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

1.UrbanLadder ( http://goo.gl/eG3Ut3)
 An e-commerce android app, which facilitates customers to buy furniture online. Worked on 1st version of the app.(End to end app Development, GSON, Volley, REST APIS, SQL Lite, Cache, Pagination, Lazy Loading)
2.FlipKart Quick App
 Utility android app for flipkart delivery boys ,Gives list of orders,goods,paths from where delivery boy has to pickup,drop to seller, buyer or hub.(Google Map Library, Geo location,Services, Animations, Rest API, Volley)
3.Fitternity ( http://goo.gl/90fjfS)
 App helps to discover and allow prior booking of fitness centers .
4.TAPPLENT
 An Utility app for Tapplent, which will be used by different vendors(framework for them) for employee Management, Goals, their performances etc.(Managed as the only resource for end to end App development)
 layout inflation, data, theme,actions etc. are driven by server response.
 Implemented a performent chat window where user
can upload and download doc files, images, media files and multiple other widgets.
 Used custom widgets libraries, Rhino, Retrofit, ObjectCache etc.

Android DevelopmentREST APIsSQL Lite

Misys

Associate software engineer

Feb 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

 Worked on Misys Portal, A JEE based internet banking solution for corporate banks.
 Developed Key part of FSCM(finance supply chain management) which facilitates purchase and receiving of goods, services or invoices between customers.
 Reduced Login time by approx 70% and transaction submission time by approx 95%.
 Used Hibernate reverse engineering to generate DB Schema based mapping files.

Java EEHibernateJEE