Valerian Clerc

Software Engineer Ii @微软

Vancouver, BC, CA

M365 Copilot - Office AI Innovation Lab (Typescript)• Drove new M365 agentic AI app from prototype to production, scaling from 2 to 20 engineers, shipping in June 2026.• Architected and implemented agentic document editing for M365 Copilot, developing Fluid Framework’s tree-agent library in the process.• Created internal LLM orchestration framework (similar to TypeAgent) to power AI personal agents, enhanced with RAG for document analysis, vector embeddings for quick orchestration, and integration into Outlook/Teams.• Fine-tuned LLMs with synthetic data to tailor tone and response structure (LoRA).• Prototyped real-time collaborative tools for photo curation, reviewing, and editing, based on the Fluid Framework.• Built proof-of-concept for mobile camera-based generative AI app (Stable Diffusion).• Drove hiring, interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring of new team members, growing team from 5 to 11 engineers.Windows Photos:• Built location and offline search features in Windows Photos, designing dynamic SQL query builder for flexible searches.• Led performance and reliability for iCloud integration, accelerating filesystem load times by 50%.• Designed communication patterns with OneDrive Windows client, eliminating polling and lowering CPU/IO utilization.

McGill University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Cégep Heritage College

DEC, Science

DTU - Technical University of Denmark

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Proctor Academy

High School