Tanmay Varshney

Leading the LinkedIn Talent Solutions - Partner Engineering team.

OfficeAI- Building Office Copilot Experiences Copilot Extensibility F/W Working on building an extensibility framwork which extends copilot boundaries to work with any 3P plugins and Custom GPTs. This allows external partners like Adobe, Thomson reuters, Salesforce, SAP etc. to build their copilots/plugins and get them hosted to be used within Microsoft app ecosystem via App Chats and BingChat/Bizchat. Impact : ~10M MAU and ~2M DAU Copilot Handoff Led, built and patented a copilot extensibility framework called Copilot Handoff which allows App chat Copilots to delegate to each other and allow 1P and 3P copilots to delegate to app chat copilots to serve user intents through any app. Led and managed a team of 5-6 people to productionize the shared architecture and worked with 12+ partners to deliver the E2E scenarios across different source and destination apps. Impact: 800k MAU and ~100k DAU App Chat Copilot Led and built the backend service for integration of LLMs(GPTs) into app chats for M365 Office apps specifically for Word, PPT & OneNote. This sidecar experience in the office apps revolutionizes the user experience where the user can converse as well as get all their appbased tasks done by NL queries. Impact: 5M MAU and 1M DAU

Office Voice team 1. Leading Read aloud backend crew and working on enhancing Read aloud support at service side for various rich objects like Images, Tables, Charts, Ink objects etc. These efforts are targeted towards achieving 1B minutes per month from users. Working on adding Custom Neural voice support which allows any user to read aloud/create podcast in their own voice. 2. Responsible for maintenance and compliance of the service. 3. Leading the team as Learning and Product Engineering Excellence champ as well. PowerPoint Edit Canvas Team 1. Led a feature crew in developing Cut/Copy/Paste experience for Charts from Excel Web to PPT Web which was one of the top requested feature from NPS surveys. This unblocked around 3M office web users. Tech Stack: C#, Javascript, Typescript, React.js, Restful webservices

Working in Office 365 team to add new features in Powerpoint Online. Shipped the following features which were the major Editing gaps to bring powerpoint online in parity with Powerpoint desktop and Google slides. 1. SmartGuide: A suggestion tool which uses guiding lines inside powerpoint online which suggests user to align their objects as they want in their presentation. 2. Arrange(Align,Distribute & Rotate): Unblocking users to align, distribute and rotate objects in a presentation. 3. Color Picker: This enables users to use more than 16 million different colors in the presentation for shapes,text,tables and even outlines. 4. Custom Size and Rotate: This feature allows user to give extra flexibilities to manipulate any object's height,width & rotation precisely via a dedicated format options pane and other entry points as well. These features will help unblock millions of Powerpoint desktop users to use Powerpoint online. Worked on the UX refresh project which focuses on modernizing the experience of Powerpoint online. Worked on creating Tabbed Taskpane control as part of the above project and integrated all the taskpanes to be shown under Tabbed Taskpane control. Earlier the taskpanes were getting launched as stacked one before the other which was hampering the canvas experience for the user. Tech stack : Javascript, Typescript, React.js, C#, Script#, C++, AJAX

Tech Stack : C, C++, Java, Android, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Caffe 1. Samsung MDM : Developed and maintained the framework for Samsung Mobile Device Management(MDM) solution in Samsung flagship devices. 2. Knox CTS: Developed the Knox Compliance Test Suite Automation Framework for Mobile Device Management apis in Samsung Flagship devices. 3. Samsung Neural Network Acceleration Platform: Worked on the acceleration of Multimedia apps through different Neural Network models

Worked under B2B Knox Solutions team. Tech Stack: C, C++, Tizen, Java, Android 1. Integrated the Wi-Fi module with CCM(client certificate manager) under Secure Socket Layers for Android L and M Knox versions. 2. Developed the Knox Customization SDK and a front-end test app for the same for Samsung Gear S2 and S3 devices.

Worked on the back-end modules of LDAP Admin Proxy server under Knox Solutions team.

Ranked in top 12% among the 165 students of Computer Engg. Department. Awarded with Merit Scholarship in 3 yrs of the degree.