Maria Guirguis
Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Guirguis is a Senior Applied Scientist with nine years of experience driving data-driven engineering and applied science at Microsoft, progressing from software engineer roles to senior technical and management positions across Boston and Houston. She combines a deep academic foundation from MIT (SB and MEng) and Cambridge with hands-on experience building scalable software and ML-infused systems in large enterprise environments. Maria has a track record of translating research and prototype work into production-ready solutions, having bridged roles in research labs, product engineering, and people leadership. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams, she focuses on pragmatic, measurable outcomes while mentoring engineers to raise technical standards. A former MIT Media Lab research assistant and long-time contributor to complex engineering projects, she brings both research rigor and production discipline to solve hard problems at scale.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyElectronics Engineering and Information Sciences, Electronics Engineering and Information Sciences at University of CambridgeAdvanced Regents Diploma MSI, Advanced Regents Diploma MSI at Brooklyn Technical High School
Arabic, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
kubernetes10
artificial-intelligence10
convolutional-neural-networks10
python10
microsoft10
data-science10
image-processing10
image-classification10
machine-learning10
similarity10
deep-learning10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
azure10
jupyter-notebook10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
maguir/SynapseML
May 2022 - May 2022
Simple and Distributed Machine Learning
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
pythondata-sciencemachine-learningdistributed-trainingdistributed-computing
microsoft/computervision-recipes
Oct 2023 - Oct 2023
Best Practices, code samples, and documentation for Computer Vision.
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
computer-visionmachine-learningdeep-learningpythonjupyter-notebook
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