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01 Microsoft Copilot 02 Agentic AI 03 8 publications
Ashrith Reddy
Building at production scale

Engineer, researcher, systems thinker.

Generative AI · Agentic systems · Distributed platforms

I’m a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, where I build intelligent recommendation and workflow systems across Bing, Edge Search, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. My work spans real-time intent classification, agent discovery, multilingual prompt generation, and large-scale data pipelines.

Before Microsoft, I architected Ellucian’s production GenAI platform on AWS and improved RAG answer relevance by 60%. My research in AI and cybersecurity has led to eight publications and Virginia Tech’s 2024 Best MS Research Award.

  • Base: Redmond, WA
  • Role: Software Engineer II
  • Focus: AI + distributed systems
  • Education: Virginia Tech

My Skills

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  • Python
  • C#
  • C/C++
  • Java
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • Bash

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  • Agentic AI
  • LLMs + RAG
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • React
  • PyTorch

What have I been upto?

Education

  • JAN 2022 — DEC 2023
    Masters in Computer Science and Applications
    Virginia Tech

    GPA: 3.77

    Worked with Dr. Jin-Hee Cho on an Interdependent Mission Impact Assessment (iMIA) framework using Bayesian reasoning to infer the performance and game-theoretic enemy behavior modeling to simulate the attack-defense interactions with the mission system.


    Received the Best MS Research Award, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2024.

  • SEP 2016 — JUL 2021
    B.Tech & M.Tech in Information Technology
    Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad

    CGPA: 8.93 (B.Tech: 8.67 & M.Tech: 9.70).

    Worked with Prof. O. P. Vyas on my master's thesis titled "A Multi-Agent Framework to Detect In-Progress False Data Injection Attacks for Smart Grid".

Experience

  • SEP 2025 — PRESENT
    Software Engineer II
    Microsoft · Redmond, WA
    • Built and scaled Turbo, an agentic prompt recommendation platform across Bing, Edge Search, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, driving tens of thousands of daily referrals.
    • Developed multilingual generation and evaluation pipelines spanning 24 languages, Bing Grounding, automated quality scoring, and trending-news enrichment.
    • Built real-time intent classification and inline agent recommendations serving millions of daily Copilot conversations.
    • Engineered Azure Synapse content pipelines and end-to-end contracts between Python producers and C# consumers.
  • JAN 2024 — AUG 2025
    Software Engineer I & II
    Ellucian · Reston, VA
    • Ellucian IQ GenAI: Architected and deployed a scalable, production-grade Generative Agentic AI platform using AWS Serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB) and AWS Bedrock, laying the foundation for company-wide AI integration.

    • Implemented advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) using AWS OpenSearch vector search, improving answer relevance by 60% through contextual grounding and semantic enrichments.

    • Reduced perceived latency from 10s to under 1s through asynchronous processing with SNS streaming and WebSockets, significantly enhancing user experience.

    • Delivered an AI-powered rich text editor in React.js, using the GenAI platform for dynamic text enhancements, context-aware content generation, and personalized AI interactions with support for rich text formats like quill delta.

    • Employed Test-Driven Development (TDD) and authored automation tests using Playwright, ensuring reliable high-performance backend services and UI, which reduced bugs and improved software quality.

  • 2023
    Software Development Engineer Intern
    Ellucian

    Built a robust course selection shopping cart service using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB with a React.js frontend, scaling to handle over 10,000 peak concurrent users (PCU) during registration periods. Developed WebSocket APIs and SQS queues for real-time pricing and availability updates via DynamoDB streams, eliminating registration conflicts and improving user experience.

  • 2021-2022
    Software Development Engineer
    Philips

    Migrated a monolithic patient monitoring application to a microservices architecture using Java SpringBoot, Spring Cloud, and Hibernate, improving system scalability and maintainability.

    Implemented a real-time analytics dashboard using Kafka streams and Elasticsearch, enabling clinicians to monitor critical patient metrics across multiple units, resulting in 35% faster response times to clinical deterioration events.

    Developed comprehensive JUnit and Mockito test suites integrated with the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline with Snyk and SonarQube scans, reducing regression testing time by 50% while expanding test coverage by 90%.

  • 2020
    Data Science Research Intern
    Philips Innovation Campus

    Developed a novel approach using GANs for NURD correction in the intravascular ultrasound images using PyTorch and received the Philips spot Award for my contribution.

  • 2019
    Senior Student Research Associate
    Interdisciplinary Center for Cyber Security and Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures

    Developed a comprehensive framework that scans the devices and detects malicious activity in an intranet in real-time for SCADA/ICS networks using Snort, Scapy, Flask, D3.js for data visualization.

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What I build

Software Development

Reliable distributed services and data pipelines built for production scale.

Cloud Platforms

Serverless and event-driven systems across Azure and AWS.

Agentic AI

LLM agents, RAG, recommendations, evaluation, and intelligent workflows.

Cyber Security

Research-backed mission resilience, network security, and adversarial modeling.