Amgad Madkour
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmgad Madkour is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building AI-powered consumer experiences and enterprise-scale platforms. He has led 0→1 products like Microsoft Copilot Commerce Savings, Autos Copilot, and My Garage, driving multi-fold user and revenue growth while operating as a hands-on tech lead across system design and full-stack implementation. His expertise spans agentic AI systems, LLM-driven applications, knowledge graphs, and data platforms, and he has a strong record of scaling multidisciplinary engineering and applied science teams from scratch. At Bing and Edge he improved entity matching and knowledge graph scale and cut costs through optimized indexing and .NET for Spark adoption—demonstrating both research rigor and production pragmatism. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue and blends patented research experience from IBM with product-focused execution at Microsoft. Colleagues see him as a leader who pairs measurable operational improvements with deep technical stewardship across AI and data infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (37)
rdf6
filtering6
spark-streaming6
azure-cosmos-db6
streaming5
csharp5
apache-jena5
semantic-web5
sansa5
spark5
jena5
spark-ml5
emr5
apache-spark5
spark-sql4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
purduedb/knowledgecubes
May 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 53 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years
data-managementsparkscalardffiltering
amgadmadkour/amgadmadkour.github.io
Feb 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 123 pushes, 15 branches in 5 years 11 months
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