Tal Saraf

Chief Technology and AI Officer, Enterprise Platforms at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States

Tal Saraf is Chief Technology and AI Officer, Enterprise Platforms at Microsoft. He has held senior engineering and executive roles at Amazon, Atlassian, Cisco, Meta, and has co-founded ContrastCloud. His expertise includes building and scaling global infrastructure, distributed systems, and enterprise technology platforms.

  • Microsoft Chief Technology and AI Officer, Enterprise Platforms 2026–present, Product Unit Manager - MSN® Direct for Windows Mobile® | Server and Mobile Engineering 2007–2008, Principal Group Manager - Microsoft Speech Server | Program Management 2004–2007, Group Program Manager - MSN.Com and My.MSN.Com | Consumer Internet 2002–2004, Managing Consultant / Engagement Manager | Forward Deployed Engineering 2001–2002, Group Program Manager - ActiveSync and Server ActiveSync | Program Management 2000–2001, Lead Program Manager - TaxSaver 1997–2000, Technical Evangelist - Developer Relations Group | Forward Deployed Engineer | Network Engineer 1992–1997 · current
  • Microsoft Chief Technology and AI Officer, Enterprise Platforms · current
  • Atlassian Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President Customer Engineering 2022–2026 · past
  • Meta Vice President Of Engineering, Head of People Engineering 2019–2022 · past
  • Starbucks Senior Vice President Engineering and Architecture 2016–2019 · past
  • OWAL Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder | Software Engineering Executive 2015–2016 · past
  • Cisco Vice President, Product Management Cisco Cloud Services | Cloud Computing Executive 2014–2015 · past
  • ContrastCloud Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder | Engineering Executive 2012–2014 · past
  • Amazon General Manager - Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53 | Engineering | Cloud Computing Executive 2008–2012 · past

Education

  • NYU Stern School of Business M.B.A., Finance · 1995–1997
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B.S., Computer and Systems Engineering

Organizations

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  • Microsoft Chief Technology and AI Officer, Enterprise Platforms 2026–present, Product Unit Manager - MSN® Direct for Windows Mobile® | Server and Mobile Engineering 2007–2008, Principal Group Manager - Microsoft Speech Server | Program Management 2004–2007, Group Program Manager - MSN.Com and My.MSN.Com | Consumer Internet 2002–2004, Managing Consultant / Engagement Manager | Forward Deployed Engineering 2001–2002, Group Program Manager - ActiveSync and Server ActiveSync | Program Management 2000–2001, Lead Program Manager - TaxSaver 1997–2000, Technical Evangelist - Developer Relations Group | Forward Deployed Engineer | Network Engineer 1992–1997 · current
  • Microsoft Chief Technology and AI Officer, Enterprise Platforms · current
  • Atlassian Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President Customer Engineering 2022–2026 · past

Education

  • NYU Stern School of Business M.B.A., Finance · 1995–1997
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute B.S., Computer and Systems Engineering

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