Engineering Manager
AI Innovation
Leading an incubation team exploring innovative product areas at the intersection of edge computing and artificial intelligence.
Edge ComputingAIIoTReal-time
Hi, I'm Ori 👋
Engineering Manager
& AI Product Builder
15+ years building high-performance AI products. Co-founded Azure Video Indexer. Currently exploring the AI frontier at Microsoft.
About
I'm an Engineering Manager with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, passionate about creating seamless, high-performance AI products.
I co-founded Microsoft Azure Video Indexer, transforming it from an internal incubation to a robust and successful platform. Currently, I lead an incubation team exploring innovative product areas in the Sovereign AI space.
Beyond my technical work, I'm part of Microsoft Engineering Excellence, co-founded the Microsoft IL Frontend Guild, and thrive on entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship — building ideas from scratch and scaling them into impactful solutions.
BSc, Ben-Gurion UniversityMA in HCI, Reichman University
Impact
Co-Founder
Azure Video Indexer
Co-founded and scaled Microsoft's AI-powered video analysis platform from internal incubation to a globally deployed enterprise product.
AzureAI/MLVideo AnalysisEnterprise
Co-Founder
Microsoft IL Frontend Guild
Co-founded a cross-org community driving frontend engineering excellence and knowledge sharing across Microsoft Israel.
ReactTypeScriptDesign SystemsCommunity
Personal R&D
Smart Home Lab
Designing and building an intelligent home ecosystem — exploring the boundaries of home automation and ambient computing.
Home AssistantIoTAutomationSovereign AI
Experience
2024–Present
Head of AI Product Innovation & Incubation, Microsoft Specialized Clouds
Microsoft
Managing innovation and incubation teams in the Sovereign AI space
2020–2024
Head of AI & Experiences, Principal Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Managing research and engineering teams at Azure Video Indexer
2017–2020
Senior Engineering Manager
Microsoft
Managing a full stack team specializing in Node.js & Angular, owning the Video Indexer web application. Azure Storage Media & Edge
2015–2017
Lead Front End Software Engineer
Microsoft
Developing the next disruptive innovation products using latest FE technologies. Microsoft Incubations Group As part of the Microsoft Incubation Group I was single handedly created Video Indexer front end from an idea to internal exit into production official GA MS product including compliance certifications , accessibility, localization, UX and UI design. Video Indexer quickly became a leading Azure Media Service serving the top M&E sector customers.
2014–2015
Web Team Lead
PowToon
I was leading the web team @ PowToon. PowToon is a brand new presentation software that allows you to create visually stunning, animated presentations. PowToon allows you to drag and drop pre-designed images, props and tools to your slide which are then animated automatically to create a stunning, professional presentation that can be be presented in person - just the way you are used to with PowerPoint or Keynote - or turned into a video that can be be shared online through YouTube, Facebook or Twitter.
2013–2014
Front End Developer
PowToon
2014–2015
Front End Developer & UX Designer
Phytech
Front end web developer, i was leading the front end development efforts in the company, planned and developed the main HTML5 web application includes UX design, worked with the latest front-end technologies back then such as Angular,SASS,jQuery2,Ember
2012–2013
Teaching Assistant — Web Development
Ben-Gurion University
2012–2013
Front End Developer
Syncode Software
2012–2013
Graphic Designer
Design Studio
Awards
Patents
Contact
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