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Vaibhav Pachauri

Vaibhav Pachauri

AI Engineering Leader | Agentic Systems & Microsoft AI Stack

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN, 201301
+91-9873842856
English, Hindi

Background


About

About

AI Engineering leader with 14+ years building large-scale distributed systems and enterprise AI platforms, including 6+ years leading engineering teams across distributed. Define and deliver agent-based solutions on the Microsoft AI stack-Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and agent orchestration frameworks (C#/Python) — and currently drive multi-agent architecture strategy at Microsoft. Proven at setting architecture standards and reusable frameworks, mentoring engineers, and translating business requirements into scalable, secure, and governed AI solutions.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

    Sep, 2020 - Present

    • Designed and launched MARS (Multi-Agent Runtime Service), a cloud-native orchestration platform enabling autonomous agent coordination via group-chat architecture — defining the agentic cloud strategy for Microsoft's AI product suite.

    • Built a production Copilot agent for Microsoft Planner using Copilot Studio, integrating LLM-driven query, planning, and auto-reporting — the team's flagship agentic cloud use case.

    • Architected and stood up an AI document-generation platform for Microsoft Meetings on Azure AI Foundry — signal extraction, LLM synthesis, and structured output at scale — with an evaluation and quality-improvement pipeline (prompt tuning, grounding, and output-quality metrics) to systematically raise generated-document quality.

    • Contributed to Microsoft's Sydney / Declarative Agent ecosystem — plugin discovery, dynamic plugin selection (SKDS), tool invocation, and agent orchestration — applying plugin, function-calling, and orchestration patterns analogous to Semantic Kernel / Microsoft Agent Framework.

    • Defined the interoperability model for third-party AI agents across Microsoft 365, enabling external agents to act within Planner via the Teams Store ecosystem; designed agent permission scoping and access boundaries aligned with enterprise security and governance standards.

    • Defined architecture standards and reusable frameworks for enterprise agent solutions, ensuring performance, reliability, and governance across AI initiatives.

    • Led and coached a team of 8 engineers across distributed, onshore–offshore locations; owned technical roadmap, hiring, delivery, and engineering quality.

    • Managed Whiteboard–Teams integration serving 54% MAU; improved service reliability from 96.4% to 99.1% through architectural hardening and observability improvements.

    • Led UWP-to-web platform migration, eliminating platform fragmentation and reducing maintenance overhead across two codebases.

  • Technical Lead (Engineering Manager), Times Internet

    Jan, 2020 - Sep, 20208 months

    • Led a 6-engineer full-stack team (frontend + backend) for CricPlay (300K+ MAU).

    • Owned end-to-end delivery, architecture, and execution across React UI and backend services.

    • Drove engineering excellence (code quality, CI/CD, reviews) and mentored ICs.

    • Delivered Times Card (120K+ MAU) with HDFC Bank; managed cross‑team dependencies.

  • Senior Manager, Morgan Stanley

    Oct, 2016 - Jan, 20203 years 3 months

    • Led a 7-engineer full-stack team (frontend + backend) for Sales Desktop platform.

    • Owned roadmap execution, system design, and delivery for core platform initiatives.

    • Redesigned processing pipeline, reducing latency by ~50%.

    • Scaled quality via test automation (unit + E2E) and strong engineering processes.

  • Software Developer, Earlier Experience

    Sep, 2011 - Sep, 20165 years

    Groupon India - SDE III (2015-2016) · hCentive Inc. (2014-2015) · HCL Technologies (2011-2014)

Skills

Skills

  • Microsoft AI Stack

    Copilot Studio

    Azure AI Foundry

    Azure OpenAI

    Declarative Agents

    Copilot Extensibility

    Plugin Discovery & Orchestration (SKDS)

  • Agentic & AI Systems

    Multi-Agent Orchestration

    Agent-based Architectures

    LLM Integration

    RAG & Grounding

    Agentic Workflows

    Function Calling / Tool Invocation

    AutoGen

    Semantic Kernel / Agent Framework concepts

    LLM Evaluation & Quality

  • Cloud & Architecture

    Azure

    AWS

    Cloud-native Services

    Distributed Systems

    Service-oriented Architecture

    Microservices

    Enterprise Security & Governance

  • Languages & Backend

    C# / .NET

    Python

    Java

    Spring

    Node.js

    REST

    GraphQL

    Redis

  • Frontend

    React

    TypeScript

    JavaScript

    Angular

  • Engineering Leadership

    Technical Strategy

    Architecture Standards & Reusable Frameworks

    Hiring & Mentoring

    Stakeholder Management

    Onshore–Offshore Delivery

    Agile/Scrum

    Cross-functional Collaboration

  • DevOps

    CI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo)

    Azure DevOps

Education

Education

  • Electronics & Communications, Bachelor of Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering

    Jun, 2007 - May, 2011

Publications

Publications