Vlad Rișcuția
Principal Software Engineer (Excel Agent) at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Rișcuția is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years at Microsoft, currently building Excel Agent and previously shaping Copilot Pages, Notebooks, and Loop. He blends deep expertise in Azure data engineering, large language model experiences, and Office client architecture to ship scalable, production-grade AI and data platforms. Vlad has repeatedly rearchitected critical services—from Office licensing and in-client messaging to Azure PaaS big-data platforms—balancing DevOps, compliance, MLOps, and live-site reliability. As owner of creative studio Saturn9, he brings a product-minded, storytelling approach to technical problems that surfaces in pragmatic UX-driven solutions. Based in Redmond, he pairs hands-on coding fluency with strategic leadership, consistently turning complex research and ML capabilities into usable features for millions of users.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at West University of Timisoara
Github Skills (32)
fluid10
python10
ioc-container10
command-line-interface10
dotnet10
csharp10
realtime9
microsoft9
crdt9
azure-cli9
websocket9
coreclr9
dotnet-core9
collaboration9
type-library9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vladris/Easy
Jul 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 2 years 4 months
vladris/mental-poker-toolkit
Nov 2022 - Jan 2025
A Mental Poker toolkit for building games in zero-trust environments.
Contributions:8 PRs, 77 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
zero-trust
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