Mohammad Jazayeri

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Greater Seattle Area

About

Principal Software Engineer with 10+ years building and scaling large-scale distributed systems at Meta and Microsoft. Experienced in AI-powered platforms, monetization systems, and developer productivity infrastructure serving millions of users. Track record of delivering multi-million-dollar revenue impact and leading high-performing engineering teams.

Experience

  • Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Leading engineering fundamentals for OneDrive & SharePoint (ODSP), focused on AI initiatives to improve platform reliability, performance, engineering excellence, and operational efficiency at scale.

  • Cofounder and CEO at EventYab Cloud Services Inc.
    Jun 2014 - Present · 12 yrs 1 mo

    As a moonlighting project, I'm managing a team of 8 committed professionals working in different aspects of the business. The portal was developed in Symfony framework using a combination of technologies such as Bootstrap, Doctrine, jQuery, and Google Maps API. In EventYab, we're honored to have 100% customer satisfaction rate either from organizer's perspectives or from event attendees viewpoint. If you wanna collaborate with us, just hit https://eventyab.com.

  • Software Engineer at Meta
    Aug 2024 - May 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos

    I served as a Tech Lead driving high impact monetization and Ads Manager initiatives focused on revenue growth, advertiser guidance, and AI powered decision systems. I lead e2e strategy and execution across product, engineering, and data to build scalable platforms that optimize advertiser outcomes and unlock new monetization opportunities. This includes launching a large scale subsidy allocation platform that optimized underutilized advertiser budgets and increased liquidity by 20 percent across 500K plus advertisers, and leading development of the Opportunity Score guidance system that helps advertisers improve campaign performance while increasing revenue and guidance adoption. I also designed and implemented an AI driven revenue measurement for Ads Manager portal adopted by hundreds of internal customers, enabling faster evaluation of monetization initiatives. In parallel, I set the technical direction and roadmap for scalable AI driven eligibility refinement systems using machine learning models, implementing core service components and high throughput APIs to support large scale advertiser workflows while enabling new monetization surfaces with strong reliability, performance, and long term platform extensibility.

  • Microsoft (Permanent Full-time · 7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Principal Engineering Manager
      Dec 2021 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      I served as a Principal Engineering Manager leading a high performing team of software engineers delivering large scale features for Microsoft Teams. I was responsible for AI initiatives in Teams Chat using Copilot bot, and delivery across the full software development lifecycle from concept and architecture to production deployment. I partnered closely with product, design, and data teams to ship reliable and scalable collaboration experiences used by millions of users. I focused on building a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, technical excellence, and autonomy, enabling engineers to operate with high velocity while maintaining quality and reliability. Through clear technical direction, mentorship, and operational rigor, I helped the team consistently deliver high impact features that improved the Microsoft Teams product experience and platform capabilities.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Oct 2016 - Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos

      I have worked on Teams Voicemail, Auto-attendant and Call Queue Services, Voice Apps Admin API, SfB & Teams Admin Portal, Gov cloud deployments and isolation network setup. My expertise in the Microsoft calling and messaging ecosystem has allowed me to drive innovation and streamline development processes to deliver value to customers.

  • Senior Software Engineer at BuildDirect Technologies
    Jun 2016 - Oct 2016 · 5 mos

    Started a project using React JS, Redux, NPM, Webpack, FlexBoxGrid, and SASS. The project is super clean and up-to-date in terms of development technologies. The code is also well-documented and is formatted using JSCS githooks.