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Career

A narrative of technical eras rather than a verbatim résumé.

  1. 2025-06 – present

    Poez Inc. Founder & CTO

    FounderAIEntrepreneurshipInfrastructure
    • Founder & CTO of Poez Inc., building AI systems and developer tooling.
    • Co-founder of GoAIX.
  2. 2024-06 – 2025-06

    Microsoft Principal Software Engineer

    Windows ShellAIEdge ComputingLLMSLM
    • R&D AI projects spanning AI-groupware and Windows Shell AI-driven experiences.
    • Scoped exploratory efforts to quantify, benchmark, and study the limitations of SLMs and LLMs on edge computing.
  3. 2021-03 – 2024-06

    Microsoft Principal Software Engineer

    Windows ShellAIHardwareTaskbar
    • Delivered the Copilot AI Hardware Key — shipped code running on every laptop, desktop, VR/AR, and beyond keyboard, across countless shipping vehicles and OEM partners, to 1+ billion customers.
    • Delivered the Programmable Taskbar and the roadmap for a Programmable Shell controllable by multiple rational agents.
    • Delivered Windows 11 Widgets from prototype to shipping and servicing, and the Windows 11 Taskbar and related Shell areas.
  4. 2020-01 – 2021-03

    Microsoft Senior Software Architect

    SearchMachine LearningEdgeWindows Shell
    • Delivered Search, News, and dynamic content across the Microsoft ecosystem — processing local and remote signals, with ML models optimized and pushed from server to run on the edge.
    • Implemented a robust user-customizable experience consistent across devices and platforms, aggregating customized feeds across social and news sources.
  5. 2017-04 – 2020-01

    Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer

    SearchCortanaBingMachine LearningMixed Reality
    • Delivered Search, Cortana, and Bing Intelligence across the Microsoft ecosystem — native implementation with APIs for online components.
    • Platforms from Windows to Universal Windows Platform, HoloLens (AR), Mixed Reality (VR), and beyond.
    • Placed first in Harry Shum's AI&R 2017 hackathon and 3rd place Worldwide Consumer 2017.
  6. 2015-04 – 2017-03

    Poez Inc. Senior Software Development Engineer

    Game EngineRenderingAIMultiplatform
    • Developed a fixed-function pipeline renderer in ARM-Assembly, C, C++, Python, LUA, and Perl for low-end mobile devices, sustaining 60+ FPS.
    • Engineered a UDP-based protocol and custom P2P mechanism for multiplayer asset sharing.
    • Designed a memory-minimal 4-Dimensional Grid traversal algorithm for pathfinding.
    • Ensured compatibility across Windows, macOS, PlayStation, and Nintendo DS with a proprietary OpenGL layer.
    • Built custom self-enclosing encryption and a lightweight scripting language with efficient memory management.
  7. 2014-03 – 2015-04

    EcoMed Services Software Development Engineer II

    InfrastructureBackendHealthcareFull Stack
    • Led development and deployment of a secure online biomedical treatment infrastructure for healthcare providers, aligned with HEPA standards.
    • NodeJS with bespoke native modules, load balancing, SQL/MongoDB with C# and Python, and ReactJS/jQuery front-end.
  8. 2012-04 – 2014-03

    Microsoft Software Development Engineer

    WindowsInternet ExplorerRenderingUX
    • Shipped Windows 8 and 8.1, working on the UX teams and building automated test harnesses.
    • Internet Explorer 10 and legacy rendering teams — supported IE 7, 8, 9 through Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1.
    • Drove IE from single-threaded to multithreaded with 100% backward compatibility.
  9. 2011-02 – 2012-03

    Alstom Grid Software Development Engineer

    SimulationMachine LearningInfrastructureC#C++
    • Delivered a platform for testing the electrical grid — multi-day simulations rendering views into potential grid projects.
    • Added custom AI code using historical data to predict electrical flow, self-correcting — a glimpse of what would become machine learning.