Gustavo Soares
Principal Research Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGustavo Soares is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience blending academic rigor and industrial research to deliver AI-driven productivity features, currently leading the research behind Excel Agent. He progressed from academic roles—PhD and postdoc work in software engineering and refactoring—to senior research roles at Microsoft, giving him deep expertise in program analysis, human-centered tooling, and productionizing research. Known for bridging theory and practice, he has shepherded projects from prototypes to product-facing systems and mentors cross-functional teams. Based in Seattle, he combines a strong publication and teaching background with hands-on engineering experience dating back to Java EE development, making him equally comfortable in code, experiments, and strategic research roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Software Engineering at Federal University of Campina Grande3, Computer Science, 3, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de SergipeMaster, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande - UFCG
Github Skills (24)
tla10
synthesis10
openxml10
data-transformation10
sdk10
playfab10
sample-data10
prose10
csharp10
labview9
dotnet9
data-wrangling9
microsoft8
tokenizer7
react7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gustavoasoares/refazer
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:100 commits, 19 PRs, 132 pushes in 1 year 7 months
program-transformationstransformations
gustavoasoares/prose-tutorial
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:231 commits, 2 PRs, 146 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reactprose
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