Eric Boyd

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Head of InfrastructureApr 2026 – present
2. 
   Microsoft

   • President AI PlatformFeb 2015 – Apr 2026
   • GM BingAds DevelopmentSep 2009 – Feb 2015
3. M
   Mochi Media

   • VP EngineeringApr 2008 – Sep 2009
4. 
   Yahoo!

   • VP of Platform EngineeringOct 2006 – Apr 2008
   • Sr Director EngineeringMar 2004 – Oct 2006
   • Director of EngineeringDec 1998 – Mar 2004
5. I
   InterDimensions

   • Founder1995–1998

Education

• BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996

Lesser-known facts

• Spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as president of its AI platform.
• Managed about 1,500 people at Microsoft.
• Founded a company, InterDimensions, in 1995, the year before he graduated from MIT.
• Spent 10 years at Yahoo, rising to vice president of platform engineering.
• Joined Microsoft in September 2009 to run its Silicon Valley ads engineering team, leaving Mochi Media shortly after its acquisition.
• Helped plan the Microsoft compute clusters that OpenAI used to train and run its models.
• Led the Azure engineering that hosted Anthropic's models, so he knew the company's technical requirements before joining.
• Announced Scion, Anthropic's in-house version control system, which scaled from about 2,500 merges a day in May 2026 to over 30,000 in September.
• Joined the board of AI hiring company HireVue in 2018.

Interviews and talks

• MIT Sloan Me, Myself, and AI podcast on moving AI out of the lab and into products (2023)sloanreview.mit.edu
• AMD Advancing AI keynote (2025)youtube.com
• MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital speaker (2023)event.technologyreview.com