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AWS hires former Microsoft Copilot CTO to work on Kiro and Quick

Pedram Rezaei, a nearly 20-year Microsoft veteran, joins as a distinguished engineer in Swami Sivasubramanian's organization.

By West Coast News staff ·
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Pedram Rezaei, a longtime Microsoft engineering leader who was previously Copilot's chief technology officer, started Monday as a distinguished engineer in the Amazon Web Services Agentic AI and Emerging Technologies organization, GeekWire reported.

Rezaei will work initially on Kiro, the AWS coding tool, and Quick, Amazon's AI assistant for workplace tasks, according to a memo from organization leader Swami Sivasubramanian. "He is a hands-on engineer who is still in the code every day, and he plans to keep it that way here," Sivasubramanian wrote.

Kiro's user count doubled from the first quarter to the second, and monthly AI users for Quick grew fourfold, according to the memo.

Rezaei joined Microsoft in 2006 and worked on Power BI, Dynamics 365, Cortana, Bing and Azure Maps before moving to Copilot, becoming its CTO in February and moving to the Microsoft Superintelligence team in June, GeekWire reported.

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