Sayan Shaw is a software engineer with six years of experience building high-performance ML infrastructure, currently advancing AI Frameworks at Microsoft in Seattle. He led architecture and delivery for ONNXRuntime acceleration used by DALL-E–powered Bing Image Creator, driving 13.4 million additional daily inferences and expanding ORT adoption across Bing, Office, and Windows silicon teams. Sayan specializes in optimizing NLP and vision workloads—creating C++ tokenizers that beat OpenAI and HuggingFace benchmarks and developing a DSL for generating optimized ONNX GPU kernels on Nvidia hardware. His background spans research on energy-efficient AI at UC San Diego and entrepreneurial experience founding a Bay Area startup that delivered scalable, cost-optimized web services on AWS. Comfortable bridging research and production, he collaborates with Microsoft Research and hardware partners to bring state-of-the-art models into efficient, real-world deployment. Collected strengths include systems-level performance engineering, cross-functional leadership, and a track record of turning research insights into productionscale ML runtimes.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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