Samia Khalid
Principal AI Lead & Architect at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolSamia Khalid is a Principal AI Lead & Architect with 11 years of experience championing AI-driven productivity at Microsoft, where she bridges research, engineering, and product to take enterprise Copilot capabilities from 0-to-1 through large-scale production. She leads cross-functional teams to build agentic AI, LLM-powered automation, AIOps, and recommendation systems, and previously served as a founding engineer and applied scientist on Microsoft Feed. Her master's thesis on predictive maintenance—now a published patent—sparked a lasting focus on impactful, real-world AI applications and robust ML lifecycle practices. A pragmatic technologist and communicator, she runs workshops, speaks at conferences, authors a popular ML blog, and advises startups, emphasizing learning-from-failure cultures she helped scale company-wide.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Software Engineering (Double Degree student), Master’s Degree Software Engineering (Double Degree student) at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyLondon School of Economics and Political ScienceMaster’s Degree Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Software Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, Urdu, Swedish, Norwegian
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Github Skills (8)
big-data10
sql10
python10
java10
scala10
apache9
apache-flink9
spark3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
samk3211/gelly-school
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:25 pushes in 1 month
apiflinkapachesparkapache-flink
samk3211/flink
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 5 branches in 15 days
flinkapachebig-dataapache-flinkjava
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