# Ayush Parikh > SWE @ Meta | Ex-Microsoft | CodePath | GA Tech and UPenn Grad Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ayushparikh1 I am a Software Engineer at Meta in the Reality Labs org. I was previously at Microsoft working on backend microservices that power Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business, and Azure Communication Services. I am also an instructor at CodePath teaching technical interview prep courses to students across the globe. I am an alum of the University of Pennsylvania where I graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Computer Science. I am a passionate and motivated engineer dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge science and technology to help make a positive impact on the world. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | New York, NY Meta AI on Quest Team Building next gen voice assistant powered by agentic AI - built agentic eval infrastructure supporting 100s of weekly runs across the team - developed model in the loop primitives for agent - built dataset change management system - designed tooling stack to support debugging and flywheel annotation ### Course Instructor @ CodePath Jan 2024 – Present Teaching TIP 102 technical interview prep course at CodePath with over 350 students enrolled each semester ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Redmond, Washington, United States - Designed code generation system to automatically write business logic for new meeting options reducing dev time by 95% - Conceptualized automatic end-to-end test generator using Azure Open AI Assistants API speeding up dev time by 50% - Feature owner for breakout rooms, Azure Communication Services (ACS), and Microsoft mesh integration with Teams ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Redmond, Washington, United States - Among 2 engineers selected for data science residency program and took on role of lead developer for Smart Incident Management application that reduced unwanted incident hops by 20% - Built EU compliant data store for Azure Communication Services Rooms meetings growing revenue by 20% - Enabled Teams chat and Copilot features with an impact on over 400 million monthly active users ### Data Science Resident @ Microsoft Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Redmond, Washington, United States Real Time Communications Product Analytics Team Developed Athena, a chat bot that leverages Azure Cognitive Search and Open AI to answer questions about internal team documentation and customer incident reports ### Teacher @ TakeLessons Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Remote Taught piano, math, SAT test prep, and computer science to students of all ages. ### Machine Learning Engineer @ Stealth AI Startup Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote - Developed transformer-based machine learning models to improve audio emotion recognition beating baseline by ~20% - Designed and tested Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and convolutional neural networks for audio pattern recognition ### Graduate Teaching Assistant for CIS 521 Artificial Intelligence @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - TA for AI summer course at Penn - Responsible for holding office hours, reviewing assignments, and grading exams. ### Head Teaching Assistant for EAS 545 - Engineering Entrepreneurship @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States - Help take attendance and record participation scores - Hold office hours online - Assist with team breakout exercises - Grade essays, quizzes, problem sets, and help to grade the final exam - Provide feedback for students on assignments as requested - Monitor the Slack workspace for the class, answering any questions students may have ### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Redmond, Washington, United States - Part of Azure Communication Services, Intelligent Conversation and Communication Cloud (IC3) Group - Worked on integrating rich communication features into applications using the backend infrastructure powering Skype and Teams - Led development of new features involving remote and local video stream rendering on UWP - Deployed the first release of a .NET SDK to hundreds of internal customers by the midpoint of the internship ### Research Assistant (Vojvodic Lab) @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I worked on a computational chemistry and chemical engineering project under Dr. Aleksandra Vojvodic at The Penn Institute for Computational Science (PICS). The project focused on investigating the catalytic properties of cobalt oxide (CoOx) materials for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), an important half reaction for water electrolysis. The ultimate aim of the project is to determine which cobalt oxide materials could serve as suitable catalysts for the reliable production of clean hydrogen fuels. I worked on this project throughout the summer as part of a paid summer internship through the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER), and I continued work on it during the school year via independent study for academic credit. ### Information Technology Advisor @ University of Pennsylvania Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Philadelphia Area Served an IT support role in New College House; responsibilities included helping students to set up university WiFi, installing university-supported anti-virus software, fixing any issues with the lab printers, and troubleshooting other technology-related issues. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science and Machine Learning Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science University of Pennsylvania ### Middlesex County Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Technologies ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/a-parikh - Portfolio: https://ayushparikh.com/ - Portfolio: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KDWwL2gAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1 --- Source: https://flows.cv/ayushparikh1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ayushparikh1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13