Summary
Newton Calegari is a product leader with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience building large-scale search and AI-driven products, most recently shaping M365 Copilot platform capabilities at Microsoft. He has a strong engineering foundation (MSc and BSc in computer science-related fields) and a track record of shipping measurable improvements—like a new search service provider that boosted Outlook search success across desktop, web, and mobile. Equally comfortable with data scientists, designers, and engineers, he uses controlled experimentation and A/B testing to drive product decisions and validate impact. As a professor teaching usability and design research, he brings a practical, project-based approach to mentoring and translating user needs into product outcomes. He also led AI/NLP efforts at NIC.br and coordinated distributed teams across research, design, and business functions, showing skill in both technical delivery and stakeholder management. Based in São Paulo, he blends deep technical literacy with applied research and teaching, enabling pragmatic innovation at the intersection of AI, search, and usable product design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Product Leadership, Digital Product Leadership at Tera
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design Semantic web structured data Open Web Platform, Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Technologies of Intelligence and Digital Design Semantic web structured data Open Web Platform at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Visiting researcher at the BISITE Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Virtual Reality and Information Retrieval, Visiting researcher at the BISITE Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Virtual Reality and Information Retrieval at Universidad de Salamanca
Portuguese, English, Spanish