157 KB → 10.8 KB
Lean, fast web experiences
Reduced JavaScript bundle size by 93% and improved page load time to under 200 ms at Microsoft.
Senior Software Engineer / AI Engineer
Building the systems behind useful enterprise AI.
I am Murali Manohar P, an engineer with 11+ years of experience designing large-scale software and AI-enabled products - from Microsoft Copilot experiences to production-ready RAG and AI agent systems.
Hyderabad, India
Senior Software Engineer (Ex-Microsoft)
11+years building software
3M+monthly visits supported
93%bundle-size reduction
A little context
Engineering depth, with an eye on what AI can make possible.
My work combines software architecture, platform modernization, and modern Generative AI to create scalable, secure applications people can actually use.
Selected impact
The numbers tell part of the story.
~80%
Shared architecture, less effort
Reduced engineering effort through shared architecture across Microsoft Teams and web experiences.
1,000+
Enterprise customers
Helped Ally.io scale from Employee #13 to over 1,000 customers before its Microsoft acquisition.
Experience
A career in products that operate at scale.
Software Engineer 2
Microsoft Copilot & Viva Goals
- Built an MVP for an AI-powered Employee Self-Service Agent integrated with Microsoft Copilot, including conversational HR workflows.
- Led frontend architecture during the Ally.io-to-Microsoft ecosystem migration, completed within nine months.
- Led Microsoft Teams integration through production deployment and helped reduce engineering effort by about 80%.
- Improved page load time to under 200 ms and mitigated a DDoS vulnerability by reducing HTML payload size from 59 KB to 10 KB.
Senior Software Engineer
Platform scale & performance
- Joined as Employee #13 and helped scale the platform to more than 1,000 customers prior to acquisition by Microsoft.
- Led frontend performance initiatives and improved scalability through API optimization and payload reduction.
- Established a UI/UX Center of Excellence and led the migration from Vanilla CSS to Tailwind CSS.
- Built the Quick Actions workflow feature, achieving about 80% adoption.
Software Engineer II → Senior Software Engineer
Architecture & customer platforms
- Led a complete React + Redux rewrite of a customer-facing platform serving roughly 3 million monthly visits.
- Established scalable architecture patterns and delivered implementation from architecture through production.
- Built an award-winning omnichannel experience connecting in-store and online customer journeys.
- Designed an internal product discovery platform that reduced production waste by about 60%.
Software Engineer
Developed React-based features and responsive interfaces for a high-traffic consumer platform, working closely with Product and Design in Agile Scrum teams.
Software Developer
Developed Angular-based IoT visualization applications and Google Maps integrations for device monitoring solutions.
Generative AI work
Building AI that can find the right context.
Independent AI Engineer • 2026 - Present
Enterprise Knowledge Assistant (RAG)
An enterprise knowledge assistant designed to ingest PDFs, Office documents, and internal documentation using semantic chunking, embeddings, vector search, and LLM orchestration.
- Capabilities
- Document ingestion · Semantic chunking · Embedding generation · Vector search · Retrieval optimization · Context injection · Prompt orchestration · Hallucination reduction
- Technologies
- Python · FastAPI · OpenAI APIs · Google GenAI APIs · Vector databases · RAG pipelines · LLM orchestration
Toolkit
The tools behind the work.
Generative AI
OpenAI APIs, Google Gemini APIs, prompt engineering, function calling, structured outputs, LLM orchestration
RAG & AI agents
Document ingestion, semantic chunking, embeddings, vector search, knowledge retrieval, MCP, LangChain, LangGraph, ChromaDB
Software engineering
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, Redux, Node.js, FastAPI, Angular, REST APIs
Cloud & architecture
System design, Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, Azure Functions, App Services, Container Apps, Docker, CI/CD
Education & certification
B.Tech, Information Technology
Anna University (MIT Campus), Chennai · 2010 - 2014
- IELTS - General Training, Band 7.5
- Quantinsti - EPAT® Certificate of Excellence for Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading
- WES - Verified International Academic Qualification
Recognition & publication
Making room for better ideas.
- First place, CaratLane Hackathon - The Game of Nodes (2019)
- ACE of CaratLane for Functional Excellence
- Publication: “CLBC - Cost Effective Load Balanced resource allocation in partitioned cloud system” [IEEE link]