i'm a research product manager at microsoft research, where i work on quine, a world model of biology and the agent harness that lets scientists use it. i decide what the model should learn next, lead the evals that tell us whether it did, and turn those results into a roadmap across mid-training and post-training.
before that i was a product manager in microsoft ai, shipping recall and copilot features to millions of windows pcs. before that i wrote code at uber and pointclickcare, and studied systems design engineering at the university of waterloo.
outside of work i run coding hackathons for toronto kids with bridgeto and amazon, build my own software with local models and agents, and write about agents, evals and how well language models speak arabic.
I define what Quine's model should be able to do, lead the evals that measure it across mid-training and post-training, and turn the results into the roadmap, the data strategy and the compute plan.
Copilot was bad at fixing PCs because it couldn't see the PC. I owned diagnostics in Copilot Tasks, which lets Copilot write and run code locally, with the user's consent, so it troubleshoots from real system state instead of guesses.
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forum · 2019Set it as a device policy so it covers every managed laptop.1 Pilot it on one group first.2
1 · official docs2 · your IT guidanceEnterprise customers were getting help answers no better than a web search or a generic chatbot. I connected Copilot to trusted sources and built the LLM-as-judge evals that decided when an answer was good enough to ship, raising session success 7 points.
Recall is the on-device memory for Copilot+ PCs. I built its onboarding flows and its retail demo, ran guided search experiments to help people refine their searches, and tested ideas in my own user studies with interfaces I prototyped myself.
On UberX Share I built rider flows that explain shared rides before people cancel over them, brought server-driven UI to our microservice and pitched it to the wider shared rides org, and cut MapStore's average query time 40%.
At PointClickCare, which makes healthcare software for senior care, I worked on the provider portal, built its shared UI component library, and made the CI pipelines 30% faster.
Scout was a unified search engine for personal data, with a home screen that pulls your calendar, focus timer and news into one place. We took it from idea to MVP and interviewed with Y Combinator, Neo, Pear VC and Antler.
Dots fights loneliness by turning your friends' free time into plans. It surfaces opportunities to see the people in your circle and helps you pick something to do together. Hackathon winner, UXL 2024.
I run Qwen, Gemma and Phi models locally, coordinate coding agents with my own orchestrator built on Orca, and use Capy and Hermes for recursive self-improvement. With my own skills on top, I've replaced about half of my consumer subscriptions, from a job search pipeline to budgeting apps to our family's daily games.
The agent economy needs a buyer's side, and someone independent to check that it exists.
My day runs on agents. For most people, AI is still a box you type a question into, and that gap is a product problem, not a user problem.
The sovereignty that matters is a refusal, and Arabic is where you can see it break.
I asked four open models the same 200 questions in English, MSA, Egyptian and Levantine, then asked them for everyday help in four dialects. They understand less in dialect, and they almost never answer in one.
Open weights caught up with closed ones in about a year. When anyone can run a good model, the advantage moves to the data, the evals and the loop between them.
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makeBeat(clap, 3, bar, "0---0---0-0-0---")With BridgeTO and Amazon I create the curriculum and run hackathons where students from underserved Toronto communities learn to code by remixing songs in Python.
I lead programming and events for an employee resource group of 900+ members, building community and belonging for African employees across Microsoft.