Avinash Chourasiya

About Avinash Chourasiya

As a staff @MicrosoftAI, I specialize in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Data Infrastructure Engineering for AI applications, leveraging my expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), contextual data modeling, and semantic graphs. I have over ten years of industry experience in data engineering, and I hold a master\'s degree in CS with a focus on data engineering and analytics.I am committed to optimizing infrastructure and tooling for high-quality training data generation and ensuring efficient data storage, instrumentation, and access. I have developed and optimized LLMs infrastructure, facilitated the generation of complex information within the Shopping AI domain, and increased customer interaction and monthly active users by creating and managing code packages, metrics, and reporting solutions. I am a proficient communicator and a self-driven and motivated leader, excelling in coordinating cross-geographical teams and delivering impactful solutions that propel company growth and foster technological advancements.

Experience

1. Senior Member of Technical Staff

   Microsoft AI

   Nov 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Built data platform for Growth initiatives at MAI in Azure Databricks which supports explicit dependency management, ready file generation, partitioned and clustered datasets creation, explicit spark configuration ingestion, audit management etc* Created datasets partnering with ML engineers to inference for generating personas, age prediction, topic and intent; for Copilot users* Collaborated with Data Scientists to create user engagement datasets including different metrics like number of messages sent etc.

Education

• Northeastern University

  Masters, Computer Science

  2018 — 2020