Enrique Guinto
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
- Role
- Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Enrique Guinto
Principal Engineering Manager with 14+ years of experience at Microsoft, leading backend distributed systems at scale. Expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure), micro-services architecture, high-availability systems, data pipelines, and cost optimization. Proven track record delivering permanent 66% infrastructure cost reductions, improving system latency, increasing publishing reliability, and building high-performing engineering teams across multiple levels. Partner closely with Product and Business leadership to align platform reliability, cost efficiency, and content governance with organizational priorities.
Experience
Principal Engineering Manager
Jul 2023 — Present
Own large-scale distributed systems platform for ingestion and media processing, handling 500K+ documents and 90K+ videos daily across global publishers serving 700M+ monthly users- Lead 10 direct reports (Entry through Principal level engineers); promoted 3 engineers under leadership while maintaining low voluntary attrition- Own vendor engineering budget and execution strategy in partnership with Product leadership- Increased publishing success rate from 70% to 92% through backend system redesign- Reduced end-to-end ingestion latency from 10+ minutes to under 5 minutes- Reduced emergency content removal latency from 10+ minutes to under 1 minute, improving compliance and legal risk mitigation- Delivered permanent 66% Azure infrastructure cost reduction ($706K → $240K annually), eliminating $466K in recurring spend through architectural simplification and Cosmos DB optimization- Re-architected distributed systems to eliminate compute redundancy and optimize Cosmos DB indexing and access patterns while maintaining 99.9% high availability across ingestion and publishing services- Presented platform roadmap and service metrics to Director and VP-level stakeholders- Implemented change management and production governance processes to improve deployment quality
Education
ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Test Automation
- Web Services
- Windows
- Asp.net
- Php
- Testing
- Web Development
- C#
- .net
- Oop
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