Sharad Bajaj is a senior engineering executive with over two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise software, cloud platforms, and AI-enabled systems used by millions worldwide. A founding member of Microsoft Teams, Sharad has led global engineering organizations at Microsoft and AWS across data platforms, generative AI, and large-scale distributed systems.
His work focuses on building trustworthy, explainable enterprise AI by operationalizing semantic foundations, business ontology, and decision-grade platforms. At Microsoft, Sharad leads engineering efforts to advance Microsoft Dataverse as the semantic core of enterprise AI—enabling consistent business meaning, governance, and auditable AI across Copilot, agents, analytics, and applications.
Sharad is passionate about helping enterprises move from experimental AI to systems that can reason, act, and deliver real business value with confidence, security, and compliance.