Ryogo Kanatani is a Principal Engineering Manager with eight years of documented experience and over two decades at Microsoft, currently leading teams across flagship AI and imaging products including Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Document Intelligence, and Microsoft Pix. He blends a deep engineering background—from native Win32 Office apps to cloud-native AI services—with proven leadership in shipping customer-facing features and platform capabilities. Comfortable moving between low-level application engineering and high-level AI services, he rapidly adopts new technologies to solve cross-disciplinary problems. His academic foundation in materials science (PhD) underpins a methodical, research-informed approach to engineering decisions and system design. Based in the Greater Tokyo Area, he is known for stewarding long-lived product lines while driving modern AI integrations that bridge legacy Office experiences and cloud innovation.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Engineering, Materials Science, PhD in Engineering, Materials Science at Osaka University
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Ryogo Kanatani - Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft