Balinder Malhi
Partner Engineering Manager (Business AI Incbuations, Office Of CTO)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalinder Malhi is a seasoned engineering leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise and AI-driven cloud services at Microsoft. Currently leading Partner Engineering for Business AI Incubations in the Office of the CTO, he architected and launched an Autonomous Systems product (Project AirSim) while guiding a multidisciplinary team of AI and software engineers. He has a track record of shipping mission-critical real-time communications and cloud productivity services at massive scale, having led teams responsible for PSTN calling, conferencing, and SharePoint Online deployments. Balinder blends hands-on technical depth in generative AI, deep reinforcement learning, simulation, and orchestration with proven skills in driving cross-functional consensus and customer-validated incubation. He is a people-first manager who prioritizes context, empowerment, and continuous learning to nurture high-performing teams through ambiguity. Based in the United States, he holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago and brings a pragmatic optimism to turning research and prototypes into validated, reliable products.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
Github Skills (16)
control-systems10
computer-vision10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
autonomous-vehicles10
drones10
artificial-intelligence10
cross-platform10
self-driving-car10
unreal10
simulator10
ai10
airsim10
platform-independent10
rc3
autopilot3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
bmalhigh/AirSim
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Open source simulator based on Unreal Engine for autonomous vehicles from Microsoft AI & Research
Contributions:26 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
aiunreal
microsoft/AirSim
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
Open source simulator for autonomous vehicles built on Unreal Engine / Unity, from Microsoft AI & Research
Contributions:2 commits, 10 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 months
aiunrealdronesself-driving-carautonomous-vehicles
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