Michael Schechter
Corporate Vice President - Search Growth And Experiences
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Schechter is a technology executive with over two decades at Microsoft, currently serving as Corporate Vice President leading global teams that scale Bing and its API platform. He combines deep technical expertise across ranking, retrieval, experimentation, and monetization with product and business judgment to drive measurable growth—doubling Bing’s daily active users and adding multibillion-dollar revenue while launching foundational search-grounding APIs that power major AI agents. A pioneer in integrating large language models with search grounding, he helped establish architectural patterns now used industry-wide for agentic AI systems. He builds high-performing, globally distributed organizations, navigates complex regulatory environments as an expert witness and advisor, and has scaled one of the world’s largest loyalty programs, Microsoft Rewards. Based in Seattle, he brings rare end-to-end search-stack insight from low-level systems to platform APIs and partnerships.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
Github Skills (11)
chrome-extension7
chrome6
collaboration5
chromium4
vaapi4
pipeline3
gstreamer3
youtube3
streaming-video2
browser2
on-demand2
Github contributions (4)
scheib/chromium
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 2 months
collaborationchromeupdatedchromiumpersonal-use
bigben0123/chromium.bb
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Chromium source code and modifications
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 2 months
modificationschromiumchrome
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