Summary
Vivek Ramaswamy is a Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft Foundry, leading the model platform that onboards and scales 10k+ frontier models from partners like Anthropic, xAI, Meta, Mistral, and DeepSeek. He combines deep, hands-on expertise in LLM serving and inference optimization with strategic partner engineering across NVIDIA, HuggingFace, and cloud infrastructure to deliver serverless and managed compute at cloud scale. Over a 16+ year Microsoft career he’s progressed from core product engineering to architecting and operating large ML platforms, consistently shipping performant, production-grade systems. He’s passionate about building high-performing teams and mentoring engineers while remaining code-focused on technical debt and performance hotspots. Notably, he bridges research-grade models and enterprise delivery—translating cutting-edge model capabilities into operational, secure offerings on Azure. Based in Issaquah, WA, Vivek pairs deep systems experience with an architect’s view of platform partnerships to accelerate model adoption.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science at PSG College of Technology