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Vaibhav Pachauri

Vaibhav Pachauri

Technical Lead

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IN, 201301
+91-9873842856
English, Hindi

Background


About

About

Engineering Lead with 14+ years of experience across frontend, backend, and AI‑powered platforms, including 5+ years leading teams and delivery. Proven at owning end‑to‑end AI features, scaling reliable systems, and partnering with Product and Business leaders to turn ambiguity into shipped outcomes. Strong focus on people leadership, execution excellence, and responsible AI delivery, with products used by millions in Microsoft Teams, Word, Planner, and Whiteboard

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

    Sep, 2020 - Present

    • Lead the team of 8 engineers, owning planning, delivery, and engineering quality across multiple charters

    • Owned end‑to‑end AI Document Generation for Meetings: from signal extraction and orchestration to document synthesis and post‑generation quality improvements using multiple evaluation parameters

    • Built a Project Manager Copilot Agent, enabling users to query plans/tasks and auto‑generate status reports and summaries across Microsoft Planner

    • Co‑architected MARS (Multi‑Agent Runtime Service) — a platform using AutoGen‑based group chats to coordinate AI agents for complex task completion with extensibility and safety boundaries

    • Extended Microsoft Planner to interoperate with third‑party AI agents via Teams Store, defining agent contracts and interactions

    • Owned Whiteboard–Teams integration (54% MAU); improved system reliability from 96.4% → 99.1%

    • Led UWP to web migration, reducing platform fragmentation and improving long‑term maintainability

    • Delivered new Whiteboard toolbar, contributing to 15% YoY usage growth

    • Built Checklist feature in Word Web (225K DAU) and improved boot time by 180ms

    • Partnered with PMs and leadership to align AI and platform investments with business priorities

  • Technical Lead, Times Internet

    Jan, 2020 - Sep, 20208 months

    • Led frontend team for Cricplay fantasy platform (300K MAU)

    • Delivered Times Card portal in partnership with HDFC Bank (120K MAU)

  • Senior Manager, Morgan Stanley

    Oct, 2016 - Jan, 20203 years 3 months

    • Led development of Sales Desktop, reducing processing time by 50%

    • Drove unit and E2E test automation, significantly reducing production issues

  • Software Developer, Earlier Experience

    Sep, 2011 - Sep, 20165 years

    Groupon India – SDE III (2015–2016) · hCentive Inc. (2014–2015) · HCL Technologies (2011–2014)

Skills

Skills

  • People & Delivery

    Leadership

    Hiring & Mentoring

    Stakeholder Management

    Agile/Scrum

  • AI & Systems

    LLM orchestration

    Multi‑Agent AI systems

    RAG

    AI Product Integration

  • Frontend

    React

    TypeScript

    JavaScript

    Angular

  • Backend & Platforms

    Java

    Spring

    Node.js

    REST

    GraphQL

    Redis

  • Cloud & DevOps

    Azure

    AWS

    CI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo)

Education

Education

  • Electronics & Communications, Bachelor of Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering

    Jun, 2007 - May, 2011

Publications

Publications