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Matt Gotteiner

Worked across microsoft/rag-time and MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs to deliver retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, agentic workflows, and robust documentation for Azure AI Search. Developed end-to-end Jupyter Notebooks and backend features using Python, integrating Azure SDKs and OpenAI models for advanced query rewriting, document retrieval, and answer generation. Enhanced Chainlit applications with configuration management and multilingual localization via TOML and YAML. Improved developer onboarding and security by clarifying RBAC, ACL, and OAuth 2.0 token scopes in documentation, and strengthened dependency management through precise requirements pinning. Addressed concurrency, error handling, and navigation in technical docs, supporting maintainable, scalable, and secure AI solutions.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

89%Features

Repository Contributions

26Total
Bugs
1
Commits
26
Features
8
Lines of code
11,009
Activity Months5

Your Network

4926 people

Same Organization

@microsoft.com
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Work History

August 2025

4 Commits • 1 Features

Aug 1, 2025

August 2025 monthly summary focused on advancing developer experience for Azure AI Search by delivering targeted documentation improvements in the MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs repository. The work enhances clarity around concurrency, resource update serialization, and error semantics, and ensures navigation stability across the documentation site.

June 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements across two repositories. Key features delivered: - Rag-Time: Dependency management hardening by pinning azure-ai-projects to 1.0.0b10 and ensuring a trailing newline in requirements.txt, improving packaging hygiene and reproducibility of builds. - Azure AI Docs: Documentation updates for Azure AI Search access control, clarifying ADLS Gen2 permission mappings (RBAC, ABAC, ACLs, and Security Groups) for document-level access control, and restoring guidance on OAuth 2.0 access token scope. Major bugs fixed: - No critical code defects reported this month. Where applicable, minor documentation corrections were implemented to prevent guidance drift; the azure-ai-docs update included a revert to restore authoritative guidance, ensuring accuracy in access-control documentation. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Strengthened release reliability and packaging hygiene, reducing risk of dependency drift in production environments. - Improved customer understanding and security posture for data access through clearer access-control documentation and correct OAuth2 scope guidance. - Demonstrated end-to-end quality control via targeted commits (one dependency pin with a hygiene change; two docs commits including a revert) across two prominent repositories. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Python packaging management and requirements.txt hygiene; dependency pinning - Documentation best practices; RBAC/ABAC/ACL concepts; OAuth 2.0 token scopes - Change management with targeted commits to ensure stability and accuracy

May 2025

9 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

Month: 2025-05 — Key business impact: Delivered critical documentation enhancements for query-time ACLs and RBAC enforcement in Azure AI Search, improving guidance for permissions filtering, author attribution, and navigation. The work clarifies scope (OAuth tokens) and enhances discoverability, accelerating adoption and reducing support queries. Contributed to the MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs repo with focused, incremental updates across doc creation, updates, and navigation improvements.

April 2025

7 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025: Implemented foundational Agentic RAG capabilities and essential configuration/localization for Chainlit, delivering tangible business value through improved user query handling, scalable document retrieval, and multilingual UI setup. Fixed a critical Bing grounding access bug to restore reliable external tool integration. Strengthened onboarding and maintainability via structured configuration updates and documentation improvements.

February 2025

3 Commits • 2 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 monthly summary focusing on business value and technical achievements across two repositories: microsoft/rag-time and MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs. Key outcomes include delivering a hands-on RAG Time 2 Jupyter Notebook with Azure SDK setup and credentials, a pandas-based results viewer, and demonstrations of multiple search strategies (keyword, vector, hybrid, and semantic) with query rewriting; and documentation improvements clarifying API versions, deprecation notices, and distinctions between data plane and management plane APIs, including a corrected link. These changes accelerate RAG pipeline development, improve developer onboarding, and reduce API migration risk.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness97.2%
Maintainability97.0%
Architecture97.6%
Performance96.2%
AI Usage23.8%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JSONJupyter NotebookMarkdownPythonTOMLYAMLenvtext

Technical Skills

ACLAPI ManagementAgentic WorkflowsAzure AIAzure AI SearchAzure Cognitive SearchAzure OpenAIBackend DevelopmentChainlitConfigurationConfiguration ManagementData EngineeringDocumentationInternationalizationInternationalization (i18n)

Repositories Contributed To

2 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

MicrosoftDocs/azure-ai-docs

Feb 2025 Aug 2025
4 Months active

Languages Used

MarkdownYAML

Technical Skills

API ManagementDocumentationACLAzure AI SearchRBACTechnical Writing

microsoft/rag-time

Feb 2025 Jun 2025
3 Months active

Languages Used

Jupyter NotebookPythonJSONMarkdownTOMLenvtext

Technical Skills

Azure Cognitive SearchData EngineeringPython DevelopmentRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Agentic WorkflowsAzure AI