Saeed Jahed

Provided technical leadership to a large engineering team, making rapid and high impact infrastructural changes to Google Meet to scale the video calling technology in the face of extreme usage surge during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Brought first class native support for Meet and Hangouts across all major browsers and established highly productive relationships between Google and Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla to fix and maintain WebRTC and media APIs and allow large-scale multi-way video calling on the web.

Directly responsible for maintaining stability of critical integration points for Meet on web (UI, backend, and WebRTC), having led and influenced many high impact projects that touch many surfaces as a tech lead and by serving as a member of the org-wide design committee.

Member of technical staff and founding member of the moonshot-focused Special Projects team at MSR. Successfully pitched and led multiple projects leveraging MSR's machine learning research in areas such as mobile human interfaces and peer-to-peer file sharing.

Externalized technologies from MSR's computational photography group to ship the first version of the Microsoft Pix camera app for the iPhone. Provided technical leadership to a team of engineers and worked closely with UX and interaction designers.

Designed, developed, and shipped the Microsoft Hyperlapse app for Android with over one million downloads in its first month.

Responsible for improving and maintaining the performance of the HealthVault platform. Implemented a high­ performance highly ­scalable caching service to improve the performance of retrieval operations. Created performance regression detection tooling that caught and prevented many critical performance issues.

Made critical architectural decisions for the entire service around cross­-ocean connectivity that ultimately lead to improved service quality for the HealthVault application ecosystem.

Created input fuzzing framework for testing complex backwards compatibility scenarios between different versions of APIs exposed by the HealthVault platform.