James Fletcher Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

I lead a team of engineers building Kubernetes infrastructure at scale and with a focus on hosting highly critical workloads with the strictest of security constraints.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I am primarily focused on platform architecture for cloud services across the Mixed Reality organization with an emphasis on building secure, compliant, efficient and maintainable systems at scale. As part of my day-to-day, I have focused on things like...* Building for the future and the past - How do we maintain the things we own while still keeping current and building the next thing?* Live-site management and team health - How do we run 24/7 without working 24/7?* Security and compliance - Delivering customer value in perhaps the most underappreciated ways.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Team lead and architect for the group that is establishing a best in class big data infrastructure for the Windows Engineering System, one of the largest scale build/packaging/test systems in the world. To solve this problem we are...* Building custom, high throughput, low latency telemetry processing systems that enable engineers near-real-time insights into the delivery of their requests.* Embracing industry standard big data tools (Hadoop, Spark, Hive) to unify the full set of data generated across the broad and varied service stack required to deliver our core workflows.* Enriching workflow delivery by building on the rich data sets to train and deploy AI/ML models that enable smarter behaviors, monitoring, etc.

Redmond, Washington, Us

The core workflows of the Windows Engineering System represent a unique problem space due to both the massive scale as well as the diversity of services and technologies required for reliable delivery. I designed and built a service platform and telemetry methodology that enables distributed tracing and measurement experiences that are able to scale and adapt to the constantly evolving workflows we deliver. Using this system, we have empowered service owners to move from managing multiple isolated data silos to leveraging a unified data infrastructure of pre-correlated, contextually rich, reliably structured data.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Architect and primary developer of the earliest versions of cloud based augmented reality sharing experiences as a part of the Hololens team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Part of the server team focused on delivering Photosynth.net including the underlying REST APIs and Azure hosting.• Driving efforts to add instrumentation and monitoring features for the site and client applications.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed, implemented, supported and maintained the build and test automation infrastructure systems for the entire Bing organization. This included test execution, build execution, build-test-deploy workflow management, as well as the data and reporting pipelines.• Developed an internal package management system (similar to NuGet/Maven).• Interfaced directly with internal customers to drive feature sets and scheduling to keep the Bing organization running.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed, implemented, supported and maintained build and test infrastructure to support the small, short-lived Fantasy Sports team.• Implemented a simple buddy build server still in use today.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Drove test automation efforts for multiple different shared feature teams, including developing and maintaining automated test cases and test support libraries.• Primary tester for Office Open/Save functionality (all apps), Microsoft SharePoint connectivity, VB6 development environment, COM extensibility, Excel Server performance, HTML conversion and MSHTML support.

Masters, Physics

Bachelor Of Science, Math/Physics