Govind Saoji

CTO

Andhra Pradesh, India25 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable AI platforms.
Proven track record in leading high-performance engineering teams.
Significant contributions to M365 Copilot and Cortana.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with strong capabilities in AI and cloud services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Software DesignDistributed SystemsScalabilityAgile MethodologiesCloud ServicesArchitectureDependency ManagementSoftware DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentNatural Language ProcessingCloud ArchitectureCloud ManagementInfrastructure DesignCollaborationSystem Analysis

About

I build high‑scale, low latency search/AI platforms and grow high‑performing engineering teams that ship multiple features in M365 Copilot and Search

Experience

25 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

20 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Microsoft

5 roles

Group Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

Group engineering manager and architect, responsible for cloud service powering M365 Copilot and M365 search across M365 applications Outlook, Teams, SharePoint. Drive strategic planning, architecture, execution and dependency management with partners across globe for key search scenarios.

Technical LeadershipSoftware DesignDistributed SystemsScalabilitySoftware EngineeringAgile Methodologies

Senior/Principal Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jun 2014 – May 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Leading team of engineers to fulfill vision of Cortana - Microsoft's personal digital assistant. Responsible for planning, architecture, execution and dependency management with partners across globe for key Cortana scenarios such as Travel Planner, Restaurant Recommendation etc.

Technical LeadershipSoftware DesignAgile MethodologiesSoftware Engineering

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2010 – May 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Responsible for defining API between Bing powered Cortana and Windows Phone client team for first version of Cortana, Microsoft’s digital assistant. Defined architecture for cloud driven Cortana and delivered proof of concepts for calling, texting, weather domain NL queries. Collaborated with multiple partner teams to drive implementation of Cortana V1. Powered natural language based interface on XBOX One. Defined cloud based policy hosting model for multi-domain, multi-turn natural language conversation.
As part of Windows Update team, delivered cloud based management service Windows Intune. Design and development of infrastructure for scalable remote task execution on millions of devices managed by cloud based service.

Software DesignDistributed SystemsSoftware EngineeringTechnical Leadership

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Sep 2008 – Aug 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

As part of Windows Update team (2008-2012), delivered cloud based management service Windows Intune. Designed and development of infrastructure for hardware and software asset management and volume license reconciliation for IT administrators. Delivered 3 major releases of service after initial v1 version and filed patent for “Analysis services cube high availability”.

Software DesignCloud ServicesSoftware EngineeringTechnical Leadership

Software Engineer - Software Engineer II

Nov 2005 – Aug 2008 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Re-architecture of DHCP Client in Windows 7, design DHCPv6 NAP in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Collaborated with TCP/IP, DNS, NDIS, NLA, NAP, Cluster, ICS team in developing design for enabling new scenarios in Windows 7

Software DesignCollaborationSoftware Engineering

General electric

System Analyst

Aug 2003 – Oct 2005 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Design and Development of Picture Perfect 3.0, Enterprise Access Control System Product used by Fortune 75 customers. Enhanced modules for providing multisite redundancy and extending scalability of system. Lead team to design and development of Visitor Central, Enterprise Visitor Management System, providing temporary access card by scanning driver’s license.

System AnalysisSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Hughes software systems

Software Engineer - Tech Lead

Nov 1999 – Jul 2003 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

Design and Development of common platform to develop world class telecom serveries. Platform provided services such as TCP, UDP based communication for applications across nodes, Shared memory based memory management and inter process communication for high performance, application and node HA management, Queue congestion detection and control, redundancy (Node redundancy, link redundancy), Error and Trace logging etc.
Resolved performance problem in SCTP stack by identifying and optimizing Buffer Management Algorithm using Rational Quantifier and developed performance tool for load testing of SCTP stack.

Software DevelopmentSystem DesignSoftware Engineering