About

Jayashri Lakshmanan is a Senior Engineering Manager at Microsoft with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering. She has a passion for building large scale and distributed cloud services and has lately pivoted into building AI solutions. Currently, Jayashri is working in the AI Empowerment Team at Microsoft, where she is responsible for developing and managing AI solutions. She has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft, where she delivered a reliable, scalable, and multi-tenant conversation service that processes a user query and generates a bot response using state-of-the-art intent ranking models and other NLP components. Her major ownership areas include content management, conversation strategy, multi-tenancy, performance, and compliance. The SaaS offering became Public Preview in May 2019 and was Generally Available (GA) as Power Bots in Nov 2019. Jayashri holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Engineering - Software from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University. She has a strong technical background and her tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AI, Software Engineer, and NLP. Jayashri is a highly motivated and detail-oriented professional who is committed to delivering high-quality software solutions. She is a great team player and has excellent communication skills. She is always eager to learn and keep up with the latest technologies and trends in the industry.