Summary
Federico Zarfati is a Principal PM Manager leading GenAI Safety Applied Science and Research for Azure OpenAI at Microsoft, responsible for the safety systems that power Microsoft Copilots across Bing, M365, GitHub and more. With nine years of product and engineering experience spanning cloud AI, edge computing, and applied ML, he built Azure AI Content Safety from private preview to GA and helped onboard early large language models into Azure. He combines technical depth in responsible AI measurement and mitigation with product leadership, partnering closely with Microsoft Research, OpenAI, and industry Trust & Safety teams to operationalize harms identification and content moderation at scale. Prior roles at Verizon and startup founding work give him a rare mix of edge-to-cloud product strategy and hands-on ML systems delivery. Collected academic training from Cornell Tech and Sapienza underpins his focus on practical, research-informed safety engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Computer Science at Cornell University
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Data Science Data Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Data Science Data Science at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, Spanish