Larry Olson Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Supprting a team of TPMs that is driving programs across Meta's server fleet related to efficiently utilizing capacity.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Supported a team of 5 TPMs working on programs and features in Meta's infrastructure to make that infrastructure easier to use and secure.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

I'm working on Backend Infrastructure and how services are defined and communicate with each other in that infrastructure.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked each day to ensure developers had delightful tools, SDKs, Documentation, and APIs to use to solve their business problems using Azure.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a team delivering developer experiences for developers building applications for Windows, Hololens, Xbox, and Surface Hub.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I led the team of engineers that created the UI portion of the platform used to create applications for the Xbox One. This included identifying possible starting points (WinJS vs Xaml) and ultimately specifying how to adapt WinJS to the forms of Input on the Xbox One (Gamepad, Gesture, and Voice) as well as other features that are part of the Xbox experience (Achievements and the OneGuide control). Finally, It involved working with the UX Design team to create guidance for partners as well as a Starter Kit to enable them to create their applications rapidly.I also, specified and drove the creation of the Gamepad input stack and its APIs (Gamepad and NavigationController). As part of this work, I wrote the parser for the Gamepad metadata format (C#).

Redmond, Washington, Us

In the Silverilght team, I worked on a wide variety of projects. I designed, specified, and drove teams of engineers to create Media Features, spearheaded a port of Silverlight to low-powered set-top boxes including working myself to help port the code base (C and C++) to Linux, worked to bring up Silverlight on the Windows Runtime for Windows 8, and brought a version of Silverlight to the Xbox 360 for media applications. In addition, I debugged features that weren't working as I expected as I wrote samples and contributed bug fixes (in C++) to Silverlight.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I wrote the specification for and integrated (C#/XAML) novel search visualizations into the New York Times newsreader, received advertising copy from partners and implemented (C#/XAML) interactive advertisements based on their designs, and prior to the release of Silverlight 1, I prototyped (C++/C#)replacing the Windows Presentation Foundation's underlying media implementation with one based on Silverlight's.In addition, I owned specifying, scheduling, and driving features for a team of software engineers specializing in Audio/Video, Graphics, and Controls who created various controls and features inside the Windows Presentation Foundation including UIElement3D, WriteableBitmap, and others.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Head Teaching Assistant Worked with 4 Professors and 16 Teaching Assistants (TAs) to:- ensure grades were entered in a timely fashion- students got appropriate feedback- TAs knew where each professor was at in the lecture schedule to adjust their weekly review sessions with students- Held office hours to guide students through understanding difficult materialTeaching Assistant- Prepared examples and walked 30 - 60 students through topics recently covered in lectures- Promptly graded and returned students' materials- Available at all hours to help answer student questionsResearch Assistant- Built features for the Jython Environment for Students (JES)- Diagnosed and fixed bugs in JES- Wrote samples for image manipulations that were used in the Introduction to Media Computation textbookBecame familiar with Python throughout these projects