Tara W. Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working in the Developer Division of Microsoft inside product group responsible for delivering Azure services for Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure App Service. Responsible for building software and software architectures with a first-class group of engineers to enable customers to scale their Cloud computing applications with Azure easily with Container AppsCurrently focused on bring Cloud Native and/or AI/ML related Cloud services easily into the hands of customers with Azure in order to build solutions with various frameworks and tooling.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working in the Office of the CTO for Microsoft to build software, software architecture and software engineering strategies for emerging technologies that will affect the whole of Microsoft. Working with product engineering and MS Research groups across the company to develop, build, and scale technologies affecting IoT, Robotics, and AI/ML/DL. Mainly leveraging the programming languages of C/C++ and Python in building software and cloud services.Working and participating with and on technical standards bodies on protocols for IoT and Robotics for MQTT, ROS, etc. Main responsibility is learning and growing across a vast number of technical areas to benefit and spur technical advances across the company.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working in the Azure IoT End To End R&D Engineering team for Azure IoT’s flagship services in the cloud. Authoring and testing efficient code written in C, C++, C#, NodeJS, and Python for solutions for IoT devices and MCUs for Azure IoT. operational costs. Ensuring rich, seamless integration Azure IoT for Internet of Things of standardized, industry-wide protocols, such as MQTTS, AMQPS, HTTPS, and Websockets using Azure IoT Cloud services and SDKs.Active member of the OASIS MQTT standards committee.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of an engineering team that delivers leading-edge applications and solutions in partnership with high-impact customers and partners by using modern software engineering practices and modern cloud architectures. Focused on designing and delivering commercially-competitive software to Azure cloud computing customers. Currently, focused on leading and driving cloud computing solutions around IoT and Intelligent Edge on Azure cloud. I work closely with various Microsoft engineering groups to provide feedback and influence roadmap decisions around IoT and Intelligent Edge including telemetry data processing, microcontrollers, IoT/IoT edge with ML, and related technologies.Skills include building software for both Linux and Windows platforms using C#, Java, Javascript/Node.js, and C/C++ languages as applicable to project and MS related OSS needs. Architecting and delivering production ready software architectures and code for key customer scenarios and business needs around IoT and Intelligent Edge. Continuous research and creation of deep technical projects around emerging technologies and industry engineering developments for research, learnings and possible nextgen solution development.

Seattle, Wa, Us

My time at AWS consisted of roles in a best-in-the-industry worldwide engineering team as well as an evangelism organization. An engineer, I wrote quality, scalable production ready code for cloud services, helping & guiding the broader technical/engineering community to build quality solutions with/AWS cloud services. Additionally, I shared best practices building cloud solutions for AWS in collaboration with other internal AWS engineering teams across various external platforms.My focus was building cloud solutions/services for IoT, Serverless, Mobile and DevOps development for various OS and RTOS platforms. (e.g Linux, FreeRTOS, ROS, Yocto, Mobile, Windows, etc.). My technical specialization was focused on microcontrollers, IoT protocols & backends ex. MQTT, AI and Mobile cloud services integration. These experiences allowed me to be flexible & proficient in leveraging popular coding languages like C, C++, Java. Node.js, Python, and C# to deliver successful results. During my time in evangelism, I was responsible for creating & delivering compelling technical product demos, samples and complete production solution guides & code for product releases. My focus was reducing heavy lifting for customers by building end to end technology offerings for AWS and sharing via various mediums this included collaboration across internal service/solution teams for product roadmaps, technical positioning & developer program initiatives. An example of my work includes being sole developer; releasing & supporting AWS SDK for Xamarin for all product cycles until final release w/full team, building IoT Hack lab for AWS Loft & IoT & Mobile MQTT integrations.Having Bias for Action, I created & delivered AWS technical webinars, live coding sessions, blog posts, white papers and tutorials about emerging technologies & industry developments which helped me build a strong, credible presence & relationships with cloud developers, engineers, community leaders, and AWS customers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Held multiple roles at MS. Last role was as a member of a highly technical team with the mission of engaging & inspiring broad community of developers & fostering adoption of Microsoft Dev tools & technologies ex. Visual Studio, Windows Azure, & Windows 8 via creation of reference applications/games for Microsoft supported platforms ex. Windows 8, Unity3D, Windows Phone, iOS/Android (Xamarin), & Web. Responsible for creating fully functional production ready code samples for reference apps/games, as well as, providing technical resources/guides in various programming languages for the developer community across all Microsoft development technologies. Leading and participating in Microsoft-led professional & student developer events, workshops, coding camps, Meetups, user groups and hackathons. Develop relationships with Developer/Engineering community leaders and influencers and reach hundreds of thousands of developers through technical speaking events and branded online blog.Responsible for:• Defining and creating technical development assets such as reference code and architecture for apps, games and cloud for the MS platform. Creating development tutorials, starter kits, and patterns & practices guidance for use at in-person and online events• Delivering highly impactful technical developer content at external technology events and via online mechanisms like Channel9, MSDN blog, etc.• Driving app development for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Azure• Driving game development for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 & Windows Azure• Driving cross-platform mobile development with C#, Visual Studio, and Xamarin for Android, WinPhone, iOS• Driving development of cloud backends with Azure• Engaging professional and student developer communities in person & online to aide in knowledge growth in emerging development technologies via Hackathons & Hands-On Coding Sessions• Developing deep relationships with developer/engineering community leaders & influencers

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Served as Technical Architect providing .NET technical architecture & design for the Employee Self Service (ESS) team utilizing a distributed .NET architecture, as well as, Engineer helping to lead development in building a company-wise Employee Self Service Human Resources web system. Provided technical consulting to other internal teams like the CSS Information Technology group(s) via development of technical whitepapers, conducted technical learning sessions, and developed training plans for teams in preparation for .NET migration and development. Developed and implemented N-tier Web (Internet and Intranet) applications utilizing .NET framework and Object-Oriented methodology with C#, ASP.NET, COM+ Server, SAP(ABAP-RFC/OpenHR), XML, Active Directory/ADSI, Visual Basic, Internet Information Server 4.0/5.0, SQL Server, Oracle for Windows NT/2000 OS. Performed technical system analysis of projects by creating technical specifications and OOA/OOP design and technical architecture models using Visio for Enterprise Architects and Rational XDE. Performed thorough unit and system level testing of all applications developed. Maintained source code/versions via internal change control system (MS SourceSafe). Additionally, participated as member of Technical Architecture Committee for the entire G-P Corporation and the Corporate Systems Services Technology Sharing group.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Implemented complete software application development life cycle. Developed various N-tier client server and Web (Intranet/Internet) applications utilizing DCOM/COM via Microsoft Windows DNA using C++ (MFC), Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Transaction Server, Visual InterDev, Active Server Pages (VBScript/JavaScript), Internet Information Server 4.0, and Oracle, UNIX, Windows NT/Windows ’95 operating systems. Performed technical system analysis of projects by gathering user requirements, creation of business rules/requirements document, and assessments of technical architecture using Visual Modeler. Performed thorough unit and system level testing of all applications developed. Maintained source code/versions via internal change control system (MS SourceSafe). Worked closely with Q&A and Business Analysts to ensure a fully functional and tested deliverable. Developed various application reports using Crystal Reports Writer. Additionally, participated in internal testing of Microsoft Visual Studio 7 Alpha release.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Cs/Cis (Dual)

Computer Science