Kushal Vijay

About Kushal Vijay

You can reach me at k••••••••@gmail.com for collaborations, speaking, and AI workshops I build and ship AI experiences used by over 30 million users across global enterprises at Microsoft by day. By night, I help engineers, founders, and professionals learn how to build and deploy AI in the real world.🤖 AI Content Creator with 700K+ Audience across YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn One of India\'s few OpenAI Codex and Replit Ambassadors AI Innovator of the Year\'25 30 Under 30 in STEM - Global Governance Initiative International Speaker - PyCon Hong Kong \'22 & PyCon Japan \'25 Speaker, Xtreme Python Conf Speaker ACM ICPC \'19 Regionalist Panelist Uttar Pradesh\'s First LinkedIn Summit Google CodeIn Mentor for Tensorflow Org NIT Jalandhar Graduate | Microsoft (4+ years)| Founding Engineer StackGuardianImpact so far:→ engineers and professionals mentored→ 45+ sessions at IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee, IIT Patna, BITS Pilani, Kottayam & more→ AI workshops delivered at Razorpay, Universities and for Founders & Entrepreneurs→ 700K+ community across platforms YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, XI help teams understand, build and deploy AI agents, automation workflows, and GenAI integrations that actually work in production. I\'m on a mission to make AI engineering practical and accessible from Tier-3 colleges to boardrooms.Whether you\'re a student trying to land your first AI role, or a founder figuring out AI workflows, I\'ve got you. Collaborations & Speaking: k••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Software Engineer 2

   Microsoft

   Mar 2024 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Designed and deployed a new SSO mechanism, driving +10% uplift in sign-in conversion and improving first-time user experience• Resolved critical auth reliability gaps, reducing empty screen incidents from ~12% to ~0% and ensuring seamless Copilot Chat usage for customers.• Build AI orchestration Design agent and productivity strategies for 200+ engineers across the organization as part of AI-assisted development initiatives.• Leading authentication performance optimization for M365 Copilot voice and text chat, implementing thread pool optimization, request serialization, token prefetching, and client-level caching, reducing token fetch latency by 78% for 130M+ MAU processing millions of daily enterprise requests.• Enhanced first-login Copilot Chat reliability by implementing prewarm strategy and early auth token fetch with MSAL cache layer, improving P95 chat tab visibility by 61% in internal rings and 22% in production.• Resolved critical authentication bottlenecks including native SO loading, Identity liblet initialization, network latency, and DB cache failures through cross-team collaboration with Auth, Shared Engineering, Broker, and OneAuth SDK teams in leadership-tracked initiative.• Shipped Fast Boot infrastructure for PDF file activation in M365 Copilot App, decoupling heavy singleton dependencies and enabling standalone rendering with minimal library loading, achieving 40% reduction in P95 local PDF open latency in production.

Education

• Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

  Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2017 — 2021