Daily Archives: July 16, 2014

Almost 6 years at Microsoft…

I will have been at Microsoft for 6 years this fall. What an incredible journey I’m on. When I first joined, Bing was Live Search and was a totally different organization. It was a lot smaller. I think back then we could not even be called underdogs—Live Search just was not relevant. The progress we have made in the last few years has been nothing short of amazing. We have overtaken Google in some key areas, and the future is nothing but positive for us.

I have been working on the same team almost since I joined (I had two months on a team that was reorganized) and I could not have been luckier to land where I did, right in the heart of the query serving pipeline.

Since then, we’ve gone through some major redesign efforts and pushed out some amazing pieces of software to drive Bing (and many other parts of Microsoft). I became extremely familiar with .NET performance, and that has been key to my own personal success and that of my team’s. The challenges remain, and always will, which is a good nothing.

I work on a great team with some really smart people. I enjoy going to work almost every day. A few things bother me, but I love most of it. I really could not ask for anything better…