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Jay Parikh

Executive Vice President, CoreAI, Microsoft

Jay Parikh is Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft. Parikh joined Microsoft's senior leadership team in October 2024, reporting to Satya Nadella, and in January 2025 Microsoft created the CoreAI – Platform and Tools engineering group with Parikh as its EVP, bringing together the developer division, the AI platform team and parts of the Office of the CTO to build the Copilot and AI stack, including GitHub Copilot. From 2009 to 2021 Parikh was Vice President and Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure at Facebook, and Parikh later served as CEO of Lacework, with earlier leadership roles at Ning and Akamai Technologies.123

At a glance

Current role
Executive Vice President, CoreAI
Company
Microsoft
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Career

Parikh held leadership roles at NetGravity, Akamai Technologies and Ning before joining Facebook, where from 2009 to 2021 Parikh was Vice President and Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure. In that role Parikh led the teams that built and operated the infrastructure behind Facebook's products. Parikh was later CEO of Lacework and holds more than 20 U.S. patents.12

Microsoft announced in October 2024 that Parikh would join its senior leadership team, reporting to Satya Nadella. The GitHub Blog describes Parikh as Executive Vice President of CoreAI at Microsoft and also as a board member and advisor to consumer, developer and enterprise technology companies.21

CoreAI – Platform and Tools

In January 2025 Microsoft formed CoreAI – Platform and Tools, combining its developer division, its AI platform and teams from the Office of the CTO working on the AI supercomputer, agentic runtimes and engineering productivity. Under Parikh as EVP, the group's stated mission is to build the end-to-end Copilot and AI stack for building and running AI apps and agents, including GitHub Copilot and tools spanning Azure AI Foundry, GitHub and VS Code.3

Work and contributions

  • CoreAI – Platform and Tools (including GitHub Copilot) Proprietary product

    Named EVP of CoreAI – Platform and Tools in Microsoft's January 2025 announcement, which gives the group the mission of building the end-to-end Copilot and AI stack for building and running AI apps and agents, and of building out GitHub Copilot.3

Timeline

  1. Became Vice President and Global Head of Engineering and Infrastructure at Facebook.1
  2. Concluded twelve years leading engineering and infrastructure at Facebook.1
  3. Microsoft announced that Parikh was joining its senior leadership team, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella.2
  4. Named EVP of Microsoft's new CoreAI – Platform and Tools engineering organization.3

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Jay Parikh — author page on the GitHub BlogGitHub (Microsoft) · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Microsoft names Jay Parikh as a member of the senior leadership team (The Official Microsoft Blog)Microsoft · Announcement · published Oct 31, 2024 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  3. Introducing CoreAI – Platform and Tools (The Official Microsoft Blog)Microsoft · Announcement · published Jan 13, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026