Luis Vargas
Founder And CTO at Evolver
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Vargas is a founder and CTO with two decades of technical leadership experience, currently building Evolver to apply AI and domain expertise to operations, finance, and compliance. He previously shaped Microsoft’s cross-company GenAI strategy—reporting to the CTO—and coordinated infrastructure, systems software, platform, and product teams to productize large models (Copilot) on Azure. A PhD in computer science from Cambridge with deep roots in distributed systems and databases, Luis led high-availability and cloud database efforts that helped grow multiple $1B+ businesses. He combines research-level rigor with hands-on engineering and product management, having launched services, guided large engineering organizations, and architected mission-critical systems for global customers. Notably, he moved from leading SQL Server resilience and hybrid cloud features to orchestrating AI-at-scale initiatives that trained and deployed world-class models in partnership with OpenAI. Based in Greater Seattle, he blends enterprise impact with startup agility to turn advanced ML research into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science (Distributed Systems), MSc, Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at University of EssexPhD, Computer Science (A mix of Distributed Systems and Database Systems), PhD, Computer Science (A mix of Distributed Systems and Database Systems) at University of CambridgeBSc with honors, Computer Science, BSc with honors, Computer Science at Instituto Tecnologico de Celaya
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (3)
azure10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
luisherring/azure-docs
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 month
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