Dec 2023 – Nov 2024 · 11 mos

• Lead the cross-company technical strategy for GenAI from inception in 2017 until 2024.
• Coordinated efforts across infrastructure, platform, models, and product scenarios.
• Reported directly to Kevin Scott (Microsoft CTO) and the Microsoft Senior Leadership Team.

Jun 2017 – Dec 2023 · 6 yrs 6 mos

• Initiated and scaled the technical strategy for artificial intelligence across the company.
• Coordinating the cross-company initiative "AI at Scale" across 20+ teams in Microsoft building infrastructure (supercomputing clusters interconnecting AI accelerators through high-bandwidth networks), systems software (compiler+runtime+libraries to optimize distributed training and inferencing), platform (to schedule, manage, and monitor the execution of AI jobs maximizing capacity utilization), and models (language and multi-modality combining e.g. images and document structure) to empower disruptive AI capabilities across our products (e.g. Bing, Office, Teams, Dynamics, and LinkedIn)
• Identifying and bootstrapping growth/differentiation opportunities between our product teams (e.g. Azure) and Microsoft Research (e.g. leveraging Automated Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning)
• Aligning engineering efforts across divisions through a shared vision (e.g. Microsoft Graph Connect Data Connect to make the data assets from Office and Dynamics available on Azure to the enable analytics/ML and app development)

Jan 2009 – Jun 2017 · 8 yrs 5 mos

• I lead a team defining, implementing, and evangelizing features in SQL Server and Microsoft Azure to offer the best cloud platform (reliability, performance, security, management, and cost) to host databases. I launched the offering and built it into a $300M/year business in 2 years ($1B+/year today)
• I helped other cloud providers (e.g. Google and RackSpace) to offer SQL Server in their clouds
• I led the high availability of Azure Data Warehouse and guided the team (an acquisition called "Parallel Data Warehouse") towards its launch as a cloud managed service
• I led a team that introduced "hybrid" features (e.g. Secondary Replicas on Azure for HA/DR/Scale-out, Backup/Restore to/from Azure, Database Files in Azure) into SQL Server 2014
• I led the high availability of SQL Server in SQL Server 2012, 2014, and 2016, starting with the introduction of AlwaysOn (enterprise solution for high availability and disaster recovery) bringing $1B+ annually. This involved writing functional/supportability specs, building a project plan, defining the release criteria, and leading the development/test team (60+ developers/testers) to the project completion
• I helped customers around the world architect multi-million dollar mission-critical solutions (e.g. Expedia, Bank of America, BWin, GE Healthcare, StackOverflow)
• > Consistently ranked top 10% performer in SQL Server team

Sep 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 3 mos · Aguascalientes, Mexico

• Worked on the design and implementation of GE Web Cash, an internal mission-critical system (+1000 users worldwide) for electronic funds transfers
• Analyzed business requirements and translated them to technical specifications
• Developed and tested functionality using Visual Studio .NET and SQL Server
• Set up the company's source code control system (used by +100 developers)

Aug 2001 – Sep 2002 · 1 yr 1 mo · Leon, Mexico

• Designed and implemented a web-based content management system for governmental entities in Mexico.