Avishek Dan

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led strategy for Microsoft Copilot's search capabilities.
  • Delivered first-to-market features across Microsoft products.
  • Expert in machine learning and data mining techniques.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on AI-driven search technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipMachine LearningData MiningSearch Engine RankingNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentCC++AlgorithmsJavaPythonHTMLSQLMatlabResearchPL/SQLEclipseWeb MiningHadoop

About

I lead strategy and execution for search and grounding capabilities within Microsoft Copilot. I own end-to-end responsibility for defining priorities, setting delivery milestones, and aligning engineering execution across multiple teams and disciplines. I work closely with senior engineers, people managers, and leadership to ensure the organization delivers on ambitious goals while balancing scope, quality, and timelines in a rapidly evolving competitive landscape. Earlier in my career at Microsoft, I worked on search experiences across Bing, Visual Studio, and emerging AI-driven products. In those roles, I led cross-team planning and delivery for product launches that were strategically important, customer-facing, and competitive in nature, including first-to-market features and new platform capabilities later adopted more broadly across Microsoft’s ecosystem.

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
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Average Tenure
12 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2016Present · 9 yrs 6 mos · On-site

  • Building generative AI powered search experiences.
Engineering LeadershipCross-functional Team LeadershipMachine LearningSoftware Development

Software Engineer 2

Aug 2013Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · On-site

  • Tech lead for various data mining and relevance projects in Search Technology Center - India
  • 1. Ranking of web results for tech queries on Bing.com
  • 2. Contextual ranking of search results for compiler and runtime errors in Visual Studio based on the IDE context
  • 3. Mining project information from enterprise data
  • 4. Entity linking solutions for Microsoft Edge, Bing Snapshot Android App and news articles in Bing iOS App
  • 5. Passage extraction from webpages and ranking for providing instant answers to Bing.com question queries
  • 6. FAQ extraction from structured and semi structured documents for automated chat bot creation
Data MiningSearch Engine RankingNatural Language Processing

University of joseph fourier, grenoble

Research Intern

May 2012Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Greater Grenoble Metropolitan Area

  • Survival Translator for Indian Languages targetting Tablets and Smartphones
  • Groupe d'Étude pour la Traduction/le Traitement Automatique des Langues et de la Parole

Indian institute of technology, bombay

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2011Jun 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Computer Programming and Utilization
  • Speech, NLP and the Web
  • Communication and Presentation Skills

Queen's university belfast

Project Intern

Jun 2010Jul 2010 · 1 mo · Belfast Metropolitan Area

  • System-on-Chip Design

Interra information technologies (interrait)

Intern

May 2010Jun 2010 · 1 mo · Greater Kolkata Area

  • Indian Railways Commercial Portal

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master Of Technology — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2013

IIEST, Shibpur

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Science and Technology

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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