James Pfaff Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsibilities
• Maintaining and extending a multi-tenant platform that hosts almost all Azure Machine Learning services
• Building out Azure Machine Learning infrastructure to additional clouds, and new regions within existing cloudsAccomplishmentsAzure Machine Learning Private Link:
• Architected a distributed system for delivering Azure Private Link traffic to Azure Machine Learning. Coordinated implementation and roll out across numerous Azure ML services spanning 21 public cloud regions, and two.
• The architecture I developed became the primary method of delivering Azure Private Link traffic to first party Azure services hosted in Azure Kubernetes Services, and I helped teams all over the company implement the.
• Performed early infrastructure build-out to bring Azure Machine Learning to China, including domain registration, DNS configuration, certification-authority integration, and SDK support

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsibilities
• Developing solutions on an internal distributed Machine Learning platform to enable data access and interoperability while balancing tight security controls with scientist productivity.Accomplishments
• Acted as technical leader and engineer on a multi-month project to adopt an Amazon company-wide system to enable secure cross-fabric network connectivity within customer computation clusters. Leveraged my knowledge of.
• Adopted an Amazon company-wide system for envelope encryption on the prior platform built for cross-fabric network connectivity
• Performed a thorough evaluation of a public Machine Learning offering for potential features to leverage, ultimately deciding it was not secure enough to use.
• Created a system service to persist audit logs of scientist actions to a long-term storage location for later analysis.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsibilities
• Experience development on Xbox One, including modifying operating system services, making internet service requests, UI/UX development, user-mode and kernel debugging, and frequent collaboration with numerous teams.
• Built the underlying operating system APIs to enable roaming Content Blocks between Xbox consoles
• Made extensive performance improvements to Ready to Install in Games & apps. Created a persistent cache of per-user applications which is presented to the user, and then intelligently merged with any live updates.
• Created the Memberships experience in Games & apps on the Xbox One dashboard, which surfaces editorial content and full content browse experiences for Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass, and EA Access.
• Prototyped the addition of 26 new language regions for Narrator on Xbox One, obtained funding and drove an effort to evaluate its experiential quality, led improvement of the experience across the entirety of the Xbox.

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Responsibilities
• Lead software engineer on a wide variety of web-based research data collection and dissemination systems
• Systems administrator and integrator for the project’s development environment
• Evaluate potential hires for the project’s technical team
• Delegate and manage the work of subordinate software engineers
• Collaborate with researchers, research assistants, and stakeholders to plan, specify, develop, test, and document current and future releasesAccomplishments

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Responsibilities
• Assist in theming and development of custom functionality for the department’s variety of existing web properties
• Development of custom applications for internal and external customers
• Systems administration of specific web applications and servicesAccomplishments
• Initial deployment of the department-wide SharePoint site
• Developed a broadcast email solution used for departmental contact to on-campus students

Redmond, Washington, US

Designed, built, and tested an internal tool for the Xbox One dashboard which facilitates the dissemination of diagnostic data via an on-screen overlay.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsibilities
• Development of an end-to-end scenario test framework allowing others to build services-specific tests via a GUI using Windows Workflow Foundation
• Engineered several custom workflow activities encapsulating web services calls, test assertions, multi-threaded scenario execution, and several othersAccomplishments
• Met or exceeded all commitments on time and to specification, culminating into the completion of the test framework along with implementation of my triad’s exit criteria for Mango R2 using the framework.

• Responsibilities
• Sole web developer and software engineer on the website’s content management system
• Sole systems administrator on each of the website’s three eventual hosting environmentsAccomplishments
• Installation and configuration of the website’s blogging platform
• Migration from the initial installation to a dedicated environment using a new technology stack, coinciding with the development of a custom data model migration application
• Automation of Xbox LIVE-authenticated user registration, integration of Xbox LIVE profile & game data, and automation of marketplace content aggregation

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Education record