Priyankar Kumar

Senior Software Engineer

India9 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Contributed to M365 Copilot product line.
Filed multiple AI patents.
Winner of several hackathons.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-stack AI Engineer with expertise in Generative AI and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiFull-stack DevelopmentPrompt EngineeringData Engineering

Other Skills

Front-end DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentOpen AINode.jsTypescriptReact.jsGraphQLPySparkDatabricksReactAzure DatabricksAgentsSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Next.jsVS Code Extensions

About

Full-stack AI engineer with 6 years of experience at Microsoft India Development Center, currently contributing to the M365 Copilot product line. Made foundational contributions to multiple M365 Copilot experiences, multiple Generative AI incubations and research projects such as "GitHub Copilot Voice". Passionate about building impactful AI-powered products and open-source tools. Multiple AI patents filed, multiple hackathons won. Creator and maintainer of various indie apps. I also enjoy technical writing and have written a course on Alexa skills development in collaboration with Educative.

Experience

9 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

9 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer (Applied AI)

Promoted

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

I currently work as a full-stack AI Engineer in the Generative AI space in the Office AI team, Experiences + Devices Division.
Building new capabilities for the M365 Copilot product line with contributions across front-end, back-end, and prompt engineering.
Multiple innovations patented in the Generative AI space.

Generative AIPrompt EngineeringFront-end DevelopmentBack-end DevelopmentFull-stack Development

Software Engineer 2

Mar 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

E2E design and development, spanning frontend, backend dev and prompt engineering for initial versions of PowerPoint Summarisation, Word QnA and Designer integration (text to image generation) capabilities for M365 App Copilot.
Improving the quality of responses for various Copilot capabilities via prompt engineering techniques and associated evals.
Building voice capabilities for M365 Copilot in Android.
Mentoring interns on various projects
Contributing to incubations associated with Copilot and building award winning hackathon projects.

Prompt EngineeringOpen AINode.jsTypescriptFull-stack Development

Software Engineer 2

Mar 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr

Worked as a full-stack prototyping engineer in the Productivity Incubations team, part of Office Natural User Interfaces (NUI) in the Experiences & Devices Division. Was also a "GitHub Partner" on the "GitHub Copilot Voice" project which I helped start as a hackathon project & was subsequently incubated in the GitHub Next team (the minds behind GitHub Copilot).
ideating and working on various incubations & new products for Microsoft Office
working part-time on making my hackathon project "Hello Cody: A Voice Assistant for VS Code" real in association with GitHub. The project lives on as "GitHub Copilot Voice"/"Hey Code" and was unveiled in the GitHub Universe Conference 2022. My contributions spanned both technical and product ideation and architecture. The work also led to the filing of 4 patents in the Generative AI space.
building various prototypes that were unveiled in other conferences such as Microsoft Build.
winner at multiple internal hackathons. Demoed various projects to senior executives across Microsoft and worked towards making them a reality.

React.jsGenerative AINode.jsPrompt EngineeringOpen AITypescript+1

Software Engineer

Jul 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Worked as a full-stack web developer & data engineer in the Azure Commerce+Ecosystems group in Azure Cloud+AI. Designed and helped develop some of the most critical tools and apps used by Microsoft sellers every day.
Built a new search experience for Microsoft sellers and improved its accuracy by 20% over the previous experience using fuzzy search. Reduced latency by ~30% using various frontend optimization techniques.
Built new Account Planning capabilities for Dynamics 365 using React, TypeScript and PCF. Built various reusable React components and also contributed those to open source & PCF Gallery.
Was the lead on the "Azure Consumption Planning" project which helps Microsoft sellers keep customer's Azure consumption on track, directly impacting billions of dollars of Microsoft revenue. Architected solutions using D365 capabilities, setup data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Spark and developed a major portion of the web frontend using React, Fluent UI, TypeScript & more.
Contributed extensively across frontend, backend and data engineering for Customer 360, a customer insights platform. Worked with various charting libraries, React JS, TypeScript, Azure Databricks & GraphQL.
Was recognized by the organization for my contributions multiple times.

GraphQLPySparkDatabricksReact.jsTypescriptFull-stack Development+1

Defence research and development organisation (drdo)

Project Trainee

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Bangalore

Worked on a project related to evaluating the best possible database for a particular use case.
Worked with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Neo4j and Cassandra.

Voice qube

Software Developer (Remote/Part-time)

Nov 2018 – Jun 2019 · 7 mos

Part-time role where I developed consumer grade Alexa Skills and Google Assistant actions for clients.
Also developed end to end solutions for clients around managing app content, integrating Alexa with Raspberry Pi etc.

Voycefirst

Software Developer Intern

May 2018 – Jun 2018 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

Ideated, developed and deployed several consumer facing Amazon Alexa Skills using Node.js, DynamoDB and AWS Lambda.
One of the skills developed (Trivia Nation) won the skill of the month award for the best game skill in a monthly contest organized by Amazon at the time.

International institute of information technology

Summer Intern

Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

* Interned at the Lab for Spatial Informatics where I worked on building a GUI application to convert 2D CAD drawing models into GIS ready data models.