Yumao Lu is a senior AI and software engineering leader with nine years of experience driving large-scale product and research teams at Microsoft and Zoom, now heading Agentic Workflows to turn collaboration into automated, intent-driven action. He led major M365 Copilot quality and adoption efforts, built the first post-trained LLM for M365, and orchestrated high-SAT features by combining SFT, RM/PPO, and robust evaluation pipelines. Previously he scaled Azure Vision consumption 90x, founded Bing commerce and conversational search initiatives, and shipped fast-growing consumer apps and revenue-generating SaaS services. A PhD-trained machine learning researcher who codes full-stack (favoring Go and TypeScript) and maintains @MCSManager on GitHub, he blends deep research, product instincts, and hands-on engineering. Based in Bellevue, WA, he’s as comfortable leading 100+ scientist teams as refactoring core orchestrators to improve real-world user satisfaction. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning experimental research (multimodal vision, query refinement) into repeatable, high-impact production systems.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B. Eng. Control Science and Engineering, B. Eng. Control Science and Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
University of California, Los Angeles
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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