Dan Taylor
Principal Product Architect at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Taylor is a Principal Product Architect and seasoned Microsoft product leader with a decade of experience designing developer and AI platform experiences from Visual Studio diagnostics to Azure Machine Learning and Generative AI in Azure AI Studio. He blends deep technical roots in performance, Python tooling, and developer productivity with senior product management skills, having led teams for Python in VS Code, Azure ML experiences, and cloud diagnostics. Based in Redmond, he focuses on making large-scale ML development delightful and productive, translating complex platform capabilities into intuitive workflows. A Waterloo-trained computer engineer, he has a pragmatic engineering history that spans firmware, graphics, and cloud tooling—an unusual breadth that helps him balance low-level performance thinking with high-level product strategy.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A.Sc. Honours Computer Engineering, B.A.Sc. Honours Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (129)
github10
python10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
bing10
azd-templates10
arm10
fabric10
rest-api10
openapi10
chatgpt10
azure-sdk10
editor10
azure-ai10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
qubitron/tweeter3
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Tweeter - An example Django app to share your thoughts in 140 characters or less.
Contributions:29 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
django
qubitron/pydemo
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Get Productive with Python and Visual Studio Code - slides, video, and demo code
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pythonvisual-studio-code
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