Richard Dizerega
Chief Architect, Office Of The CTO at Microsoft
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Dizerega is a Chief Architect in Microsoft's Office of the CTO with over two decades of experience designing AI-driven cloud solutions across Azure, Microsoft 365, and Copilot. He has a rare blend of hands-on engineering and customer-facing leadership, having spent nearly a decade as a Principal Software Engineering Manager co-building scalable, agentic conversational AI and bot solutions with Microsoft’s largest customers. Earlier roles at Microsoft Technology Centers and in consulting honed his enterprise architecture and pre-sales skills, and he’s represented Microsoft on global stages producing demos and keynotes for top executives. Based in Dallas, he also contributes practical developer-facing work—such as fixes and tooling updates in the OfficeDev TrainingContent repo—demonstrating continued engagement with hands-on code and developer enablement. Known for turning complex enterprise requirements into demonstrable business value, he focuses today on advancing agentic AI using OpenAI, Azure, M365, and Copilot technologies.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MIS/CS, MIS/CS at Mays Business School - Texas A&M University
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
cordova10
mobile-development9
typescripts3
typescript3
typescript-types3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/TrainingContent
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Training Content used for developer.microsoft.com/office
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily worked on fixing missing script files and updating tooling for mobile development within the context of the Office 365 and Cordova framework. Their contributions involved modifying JavaScript files, specifically in `aadgraph.js`, `exchange.js`, and other related files within the project. These changes included updates to code and integrating with the Office 365 SDK. The edits span different demo projects and completed lab exercises.
power-platformoffice-365trainingmicrosoftpowerapps
OfficeDev/Unified-API-Getting-Started-Labs
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 3 months
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