Tahir Sousa
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTahir Sousa is a Principal Engineering Manager based in Redmond with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI-driven products at Microsoft, currently leading a greenfield generative AI team focused on transforming business applications. He progressed from full-stack and backend engineering roles to senior technical leadership, combining hands-on engineering with people management and product delivery. His background spans applied ML and NLP research in academia and industry, including published work on instructional analytics and an early-career internship at Amazon where he shipped customer-facing features and filed an invention disclosure. Tahir blends deep technical breadth—from backend systems to data science—with a track record of turning research into production-ready solutions. He also brings practical systems engineering experience from aerospace and motorsports projects, reflecting a penchant for building tools that accelerate users’ workflows. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who favors rapid experimentation on bold technical bets while maintaining operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Honors Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Honors Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology JamshedpurMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Minnesota
English, Hindi, French, German, KonkaniGithub contributions (5)
SMLtahir/SimilarityCalculator
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
SMLtahir/SimpleLanguageDetector
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes in 3 months
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