Ankur Gupta

About Ankur Gupta

Driving innovation and impact across AI, data science, and large-scale product strategy - As a Principal Data Scientist Manager at Microsoft, I lead high-performing teams building intelligent, scalable solutions across Azure’s cutting-edge AI stack. My experience spans orchestrating the end-to-end development of advanced systems, such as Azure’s Model Router and industry-leading Automatic Speech Recognition technologies for global markets. I architect and scale hybrid AI platforms, pioneering innovations in model routing, nlp and speech recognition—delivering measurable improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. With a proven record of leading cross-functional teams, I drive product strategy from incubation to public preview, collaborating deeply with engineering, PM, and customer partners to turn vision into adoption. My key strengths include technical leadership, strategic execution, scaling global AI solutions, cross-org collaboration, and a relentless focus on business impact. I am passionate about building inclusive, future-ready teams and delivering solutions that empower millions of users globally.

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer Manager

   Microsoft

   Nov 2010 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Model Router | Principal Applied Science Manager | Feb 2025 – Present Building Azure’s Model Router for Enterprise‑Scale AI Infrastructure• Took Azure Model Router from 0 → 1, delivering a production-grade Azure AI service for enterprise LLM routing, processing trillions of tokens globally.• Led design of a scalable hybrid routing architecture that dynamically selects optimal LLMs per request, optimizing cost, latency, reliability, and task complexity.• Built intelligent traffic distribution and dynamic failover, enabling high availability, consistent performance, and seamless multi‑model integration.• Drove product from incubation to preview, defining vision, success metrics, and adoption strategy with engineering, product, and platform teams.• Evangelized the platform with senior executives and strategic customers, establishing Model Router as a core Azure AI infrastructure component.• Influenced cross‑org strategy through technical whitepapers, benchmarking, and long‑term vision for next‑generation AI infrastructure.Automatic Speech to Text | Principal Software Engineer Manager | Mar 2017 – Feb 2025 • Led teams advancing ASR for Indian languages, driving accuracy and wide multilingual support.• Set vision and ambitious targets for high-impact outcomes.• Pioneered data denoising, cross-lingual modeling, and code-mixing adaptation.• Drove adoption and revenue by guiding enterprise integration.• Filed 3 patents for innovations in speech and multilingual processing.Showtimes | Senior Software Engineer Manager | Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 • Directed enhancements for Bing showtime classifier, boosting F1 score by 70%.BCQR | Senior Software Engineer Manager | Dec 2015 – Jan 2017 • Launched support query routing system, deflecting 25% of queries and saving millions annually.Earlier Roles (2011 – 2015)Software Engineer II / Software Engineer, Bing & Cortana• Improved entity linking, trigger accuracy, and search relevance across Bing and Ask Cortana.

Skills

• C++
• C
• Software Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Java
• Linux
• Unix
• Javascript
• Sql
• Core Java
• Machine Learning