Carlos A Grijalva

Microsoft

Enhancing search & relevance in Edge Address Bar targeting Enterprise users with intelligent suggestions including files, bookmarks, people you work with, and shared links.

Lead and executed A/B experimentation for multiple Edge features to gather user retention, growth, and guardrail metrics to drive ship and delivery decisions with key stakeholders.

Mentored and coached multiple junior engineers and interns across engineering and PM disciplines, resulting in successful fulltime return offers.

Improved measurable Address Bar performance and time to render through various methods like prefetching, client caching strategy and implementing a prefix tree to store query results efficiently.

Senior Software Engineer - Work Search

Drive growth in enterprise DAU and MAU through measurable gains by delivering and implementing features that enhance user productivity in education and work like recommended documents and focused inbox emails.

Software Engineer II - Edge Experiences

Lead project with 2 engineers to improve significant CPU memory usage by implementing efficient C++ multi-thread pool management service which deployed to primary Azure host machines responsible for hosting Bing search ML ONNX models in more than 400,000 distributed machines across the globe.

Software Engineer II - Bing Infrastructure

Optimize end-user perceived latency by 3000 milliseconds through improving interstitial time for Cortana text-to-speech response time leveraging Azure Kusto Orchestrator to ingest, batch, and monitor more than 900GB per day from world wide usage.

Software Engineer II - Assistant Text-to-Speech

Ultimate Software

Developed a robust backend system composed of multiple Java Spring microservices, asynchronous messaging, and a RESTful API that exposes a distributed interface leveraging React native and RabbitMQ for publish/subscriber messaging queues.

Software Engineer III

Reduced UltiPro Core product cloning time by 75% through implementing a search algorithm to improve validation for database clones across multiple data centers.

Implemented a Java Springboot microservice that managed scheduled MongoDB data replication and synchronization across many datacenter environments. 

Implemented a multi-threaded caching system with RabbitMQ messaging queue. Caching improved daily database replication speed by 30% at 75th percentiles.

Software Engineer II - Part-time (Grad School)

Crescent Heights

Built a SQL warehouse to store and manage millions of records for bookkeeping, accounting, and financing departments. Leveraging data from warehouse, built a forecasting multivariate regression model to predict optimal rent prices based on heuristics like seasonality, location and property size.

Application Developer

Datapro

Responsible for maintaining large back-end code base that is our flagship Financial Systems software, eIBS. The eIBS is distributed throughout 140 international banks. Proficient use of J2EE, Java Struts framework, SQL, Javascript, and heavy experience with the MVC software architecture.  

Developed an iOS App that works as an extra layer of authentication for smart-phone users who want to make a banking transaction online. Uses OTP algorithm, SHA1 encryption algorithm, and implements use of the built-in iphone's camera software.

Maintains and develops new functionalities for our .NET FATCA stand-alone application. This application is used by banks to report to the IRS US clients who are subject to the new FATCA regulation passed by the US government. Heavy experience with LINQ queries, directly interacting with data coming from the core AS400, MVC4, ASP pages, and developing new model and controller logic.

Java Developer

Oneironaut Games, LLC

Windows mobile game developer. Responsible for using C# to design unique game-level implementations, create intuitive AI logic for various scenarios, and overlook the implementation of Path-movement based design for mobile games.

I’m an innovative software engineering leader with experience driving technological growth across enterprises. I specialize in scalable backend architectures, responsive platform agnostic UI, and enhancing relevance & ranking for enterprise search. I’m passionate about leading and coaching other engineers to be their most successful.

Currently working in Work Place Search to power and enhance relevance & ranking for enterprise search results in Edge Browser.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/msai/

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