Keiji Kanazawa

Microsoft

Keiji Kanazawa (@gojira) is a Product Manager in Microsoft Foundry, working on AI inference for Anthropic and OpenAI models. He has a Ph.D. in AI and a career spanning research → engineering → product. Angel investor in YC and AI/ML companies.

Sessions (2)

From framework to runtime: running agents with Foundry Agent Service

10:45 AM·Track M · Room 2001

See how agents move from frameworks into production systems. Learn how Foundry Agent Service provides hosted execution, scaling, and lifecycle management—combining models, tools, and orchestration into a production-ready runtime. Speakers: Tina Manghnani; Keiji Kanazawa — Microsoft.

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I Let Agents Refactor My Codebase for 3 Weeks. Then I Read the Code.

2:25 PM·Leadership 2 · Room 3020

Lopopolo says code is a liability. Zechner got a standing ovation for "read every fucking line." I was firmly at L — letting coding agents drive a refactoring for weeks, rubber-stamping PRs, trusting the vibes. Then I actually read what they'd built and couldn't explain my own system's contracts. The interfaces weren't wrong. They were plausible. Which is worse. So I took the wheel back. But this isn't a Zechner victory lap — I'm now building better specs and evals specifically so I can move back toward L with confidence. This talk is the honest, in-progress round trip, and a framework for finding where you should sit on the spectrum today.

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