Eli Cortez
Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Cortez is a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft working in the Office of the Azure Core CTO, specializing in AI-first engineering systems and AI infrastructure to boost developer productivity and scale. With nine years at Microsoft and a PhD in Computer Science, he previously led Azure Compute efforts as Principal Engineering Manager and built Resource Central, an ML-driven resource management system that saved Microsoft millions and was published at SOSP. His background spans research and product engineering across OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Research, and a prior entrepreneurial stint co-founding an e-commerce startup in Brazil, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor, startup grit, and large-scale production experience. Eli focuses on reimagining engineering workflows with AI, turning research ideas into operational systems that measurably reduce cost and complexity. Based in Redmond, he brings deep distributed-systems and ML expertise to strategic cloud initiatives while keeping a practitioner’s eye on shipping robust infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (4)
azure10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AzurePublicDataset
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Microsoft Azure Traces
Contributions:40 commits, 3 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 years 1 month
tracesazure-functionsmicrosoft-azuremicrosoftazure
elicortez/music-plaid-ui-rn
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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