Harleen Thind
Partner Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarleen Thind is a seasoned engineering leader with 7 years of senior experience building and scaling large consumer and developer platforms at Microsoft. She currently leads a 75-person organization powering Microsoft's Consumer Copilot backend—a platform serving 42M weekly and 100M+ monthly active users with 99.99%+ availability. Her background spans founding and shipping high-impact products from zero to production, driving Semantic Kernel open-source efforts, and overhauling the Teams App Store experience used by millions. Harleen combines cross-functional technical leadership across orchestration, inference, GPU deployment, and developer experience with a track record of hiring and growing distributed teams across multiple countries. She is equally comfortable steering low-level infrastructure efficiency and shaping developer-facing SDKs and reference apps. Based in Greater Seattle, she brings a pragmatic, product-minded engineering approach informed by early hands-on development and global team building.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
IK Gujral Punjab Technical UniversityPost Baccalaureate Diploma, Computer Science, Post Baccalaureate Diploma, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Punjabi, Hindi, English
Github Skills (34)
artificial-intelligence10
deploying10
llm10
sdk10
openai10
ai10
simulation9
cli9
azure8
iot8
simulations8
iot-device7
mqtt6
adapter5
vms5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-iot-device-simulation-dotnet-tests
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Integration tests for device simulation
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 months
testingintegration-testssimulation
hathind-ms/semantic-kernel
May 2023 - May 2023
Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily into your apps
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 day
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