Amir K
Member Of Technical Staff, Health at Microsoft AI
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAmir K is a generalist software and product leader with 4 years of experience at the intersection of AI, health, and developer tools, currently a Member of Technical Staff on Microsoft AI Health in London. He previously founded Yari Care, building the first iOS app to safely ground LLMs on HealthKit clinical records, and served as a PM on Google’s Gemini, Bard, and Google Research Health teams where he helped ship AI models into Workspace products and clinical SaMD APIs. Early engineering roles at Bina, Roche, Google, and contributions to Microsoft’s popular winget-cli project show he pairs hands-on test automation and systems work with product strategy. A Stanford CS graduate who backpacked the world between degrees, Amir blends research-backed AI for medicine with startup grit and platform-level reliability. He’s equally comfortable writing end-to-end tests for package managers as defining product requirements for regulated medical AI.
4 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford Ignite Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stanford Ignite Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors Computer Science at University of MinnesotaMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Persian
Github Skills (11)
windows10
package-manager-tool10
msix10
package-manager10
test-automation10
testing9
yaml9
test-framework9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
command-line7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/winget-cli
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 13 commits, 31 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Amir's contributions center around validating the functionality and correctness of the Windows Package Manager (WinGet) CLI. The commits demonstrate the creation and maintenance of end-to-end (E2E) tests, encompassing various installer types such as MSIX, MSI, and others, and testing both in-process and out-of-process scenarios. The work includes test case enhancements, and the implementation of manifest validation checks, focusing on error conditions and signature verification for MSIX packages, ensuring the reliability and robustness of the package management process.
windows-package-managerwindowspackage-managercommand-linewinget
AmelBawa-msft/winget-cli
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)
Contributions:7 reviews, 3 PRs, 186 pushes in 7 months
windows-package-managerwindowspackage-managerwingetcli
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