Alaa Shafaee
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Egypt
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Top SchoolAlaa Shafaee is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience building scalable backend, frontend, mobile and ML-driven systems, currently owning the document understanding pipeline and document-side ranking features for Bing for Commerce. Since joining Microsoft in 2015 he has shipped core components across Bing Custom Search, Autosuggest, personalization and a deployment management service, and he remains active on the Bing for Commerce ML team. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from Georgia Tech and brings a research-informed approach—publishing work on aspect-based sentiment summarization during his undergraduate research at DFKI. Prior roles include building an SRE chatbot and recommendation features at Prezi and leading a 24-person scrum team, reflecting strong delivery and people-leadership skills. Based in Egypt, he blends hands-on engineering with product ownership and a track record of turning ML research into production-quality ranking and recommendation features. Notably, his background spans full-stack product launches, SRE automation, and designing scalable serving stacks that power customer-facing search experiences.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Media Engineering and Technology - Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Media Engineering and Technology - Computer Science at The German University in CairoMaster of Science - MS Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Arabic, German, French
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Github Skills (15)
libgit26
dotnet5
version-control5
git4
msal-js3
dotnet-core3
angular2
monitoring1
azure-app-service1
azure-databricks1
hubot1
databricks1
azure1
azure-monitoring1
azure-cosmos-db1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alaashafaee/selfwritingprograms
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
alaashafaee/omscs-cs7641-machine-learning-assignment-4
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
boiler-plateplateboilerdockerassignment-4
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