Alisson Sol has many years of experience in software development, having hired and managed several software teams that shipped many applications, services and frameworks, with focus on image processing, computer vision, ERP, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, AI, and distributed systems.
He currently works as a Group Engineering Manager for the Microsoft AI Frameworks team. Previous, he worked from Sep/2019 to Oct/2020 in the Microsoft 365 (M365) Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) team. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Senior Development Manager for Amazon, working in the AWS WorkSpaces and the retail direct fulfillment (dropship) teams. He worked for Microsoft and Microsoft Research in the USA and UK from 2000 to 2017, and was previously a co-founder for 3 software companies. He has published several technical papers and has several patent applications and granted patents. He has a B.Sc. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Computer Science by the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and General Management training at the University of Cambridge-UK. When not coding, he likes to run half-marathons, play soccer or disassemble hardware, put it back to work and reuse the spare parts elsewhere!
