Ariel Santillan is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 12 years of experience building distributed systems and customer-facing features across Dynamics 365 and the Copilot Studio Runtime. Currently based in Redmond and pursuing a part-time MS in Artificial Intelligence at Johns Hopkins, he blends production-grade engineering with growing AI expertise. His trajectory includes multiple Microsoft internships where he shipped full-stack integrations for telemetry and localization, and collaborated with academic teams like Stanford DAWN to bridge research and product. Ariel鈥檚 background from Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey and a Berkeley study stint reflect a strong academic foundation complemented by practical impact in enterprise SaaS. Notably, he has repeatedly moved between roles and projects to deliver cross-team solutions that connect ML tooling with large-scale telemetry and analytics systems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science and Technology, Ingenier铆a inform谩tica, B.S. Computer Science and Technology, Ingenier铆a inform谩tica at Tecnol贸gico de Monterrey
Berkeley International Study Program, Computer Science, Berkeley International Study Program, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence, Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
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Ariel Santillan - Software Engineer II at Microsoft