About

Salman Gadit is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with almost 10 years of relevant experience. He has a strong background in search, software engineering, and Azure. Salman is a proactive and results-driven individual who is passionate about driving innovation and delivering high-quality solutions. In his current role, Salman is responsible for leading and managing software engineering teams to deliver high-quality products. He is currently working on the Bing Knowledge Cards effort, which is a complete redesign of the traditional entity pane experience familiar to all in Search. Salman's primary role in this project is to take an early, manual effort and achieve the very difficult goal of building 250,000 cards at scale in 6 months. He works with a team of 5 direct reports, 4 dotted line reports from around the world, and about 40 vendors located worldwide. Salman successfully lays clear goals and strong timelines on how they want to achieve this, and he drives the technical design as well as the product goals, timelines, and execution in an agile manner to achieve the tough goal that was set. Salman's past experience at Microsoft includes being a Senior Software Engineering Manager and a Senior Software Engineer. In his tenure as owner of Bing Recipes, he achieved several remarkable milestones for Bing search. He doubled their daily Bing Recipes query volume and increased their DAU by 66%. Salman drove the re-architecture of the entire data pipeline and index design to support becoming a fully universal answer, ready to launch in 100 languages and 236 regions worldwide. In addition, they also had several new milestones for Bing answers - they were the first team to introduce videos on the experience and the first team to add filters personalized with user and query signals. Salman holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and has also attended Lyceum International School. He is proficient in a range of tech stacks and is a skilled Senior Software Engineer, Search, Software Engineer, and Azure. Salman is a firm believer in the power of innovation and is always looking for new ways to push the boundaries of what is possible.