Mohammad Daraghmeh

July 2024 – PresentSeattle, WA

Daraghmeh Digital LLCFounder & Technical Consultant

Side venture: independent practice delivering digital infrastructure and e-commerce growth for clients across America. Repositioned in 2024 to AI consulting.

• Serve as the technical counterpart for businesses from initial AI strategy to live deployment, cutting through vendor noise to match models to real requirements, shape product roadmaps, and bring enterprise discipline to capacity planning, unit costs, and operational readiness. daraghmehdigital.com

Sept. 2022 – Apr. 2024Seattle, WA

AppleSenior Engineering Program Manager, AI/ML Platform

Core achievement: launched Kafka as a Service, the platform's first managed streaming tier, after identifying the gap and winning a Director-level mandate to build inside Apple's largest AI/ML data platform — owning instance strategy, tiered storage, and onboarding path, cutting compute cost 70% and storage cost 40% for over $25 million in savings.

• Onboarded 10+ first-party product teams such as IS&T, Maps, Search, Siri onto new offerings within Apple AI/ML Data Platform, negotiating requirements, migrations, and sequencing cross-organizations with competing roadmaps and interests.
• Led a 4-quarter migration of 15,000 instances to AWS spanning every dependent partner team, owning risk, dependency, and rollback planning to land zero downtime with full data integrity and feature parity. Over $30 million saved, and licensing dependencies were removed from the platform's critical path.
• Directed a team of engineers through 3 quarters of decommissioning and re-architecture of a cross-organizational data pipeline, cutting operating cost and simplifying downstream deployment to be cloud agnostic without refactoring required from partner teams.

Apr. 2020 – Sept. 2022Redmond, WA

MicrosoftTechnical Program Manager II, Big Data Platform

Core achievement: delivered 4 feature releases for Cosmos, Microsoft's largest internal big data engine, and its SCOPE query language — cutting CPU processing time 25% and storage cost 50%, and adding support for compressed formats including ORC, Parquet, and SQL Tables.

• Shipped an ML-based capacity forecasting and alerting system predicting storage and compute shortfalls years ahead of exhaustion, avoiding $20 million in storage cost and averting 2 mass CPU failures in its first year of deployment.
• Cleared the regulatory path for Microsoft's largest internal data platform through 6 feature production releases, from GDPR annotation support to .NET Core runtime compatibility, keeping sovereign workloads live across Asia, Europe, and the Americas with zero downtime.

Feb. 2018 – Apr. 2020Redmond, WA

MicrosoftTechnical Program Manager I, Big Data Platform

Core achievement: drove company-wide infrastructure programs totaling over $50 million in savings across storage optimization, systems monitoring, and a new on-demand token model for Microsoft's largest internal big data engine, Cosmos, and proprietary language SCOPE.

• Consolidated a decade of fragmented SCOPE documentation and training into a single digital hub serving 50K+ active users, and built the storage/compute dashboards whose insight steered the global rollout of GDPR compliance data centers across Eastern Europe and China.

May 2017 – Aug 2017Mountain View, CA

IntuitTechnical Product Manager Intern

Co-invented an ML system predicting repayment probability and routing transactions in real time to the highest-yield payment method — granted as U.S. Patent 10,956,925 B1.

June 2015 – Dec 2015Rochester, NY

IDI Billing SolutionsSoftware / Quality Assurance Engineer

Automated test suites and tooling for a telecom billing platform, validating releases against complex rating and invoicing logic.

Aug 2014 – June 2015Rochester, NY

Rochester Institute of TechnologyWebmaster

Owned development and maintenance of departmental web properties, front-end builds through content operations.

Jan 2014 – July 2014Boston, MA

EnerNOCSoftware Engineer Intern

Internal tooling for an energy demand-response platform, working across data collection and reporting.

Feb 2013 – May 2016Rochester, NY

Rochester Institute of TechnologySocial Media Analyst

Analytics and content strategy across institutional channels, reporting engagement and reach to university stakeholders.

June 2011 – July 2013Jersey City, NJ

Liberty Science CenterInterpretation Associate

Science demonstrations and exhibit interpretation for public audiences of every age.

Oct 2010 – June 2011New Jersey

TranSystemsProject Assistant

Documentation, drawings and field data for state Department of Transportation infrastructure projects.