Stefan Weitz is a Senior Director of Search at Microsoft. While focused on Microsoft’s product line, he works across the industry to understand search behavior, academic developments, innovations from all over, and in his role as an evangelist for Search, gathers and distills feedback to drive product improvements.

Prior to Search, Stefan led the strategy to develop the next generation MSN portal platform and Microsoft’s muni WiFi strategy and implementation, leading the charge to blanket free WiFi access across metropolitan cities.

He has been writing code since he was 6 years old and is fluent in both hardware and software architecture and trends.