Anne Loomis Thompson

About Anne Loomis Thompson

Principal Software Engineer with a passion for building developer tools and frameworks, and a history working in the AI space. Currently the tech lead for the Azure SDK core libraries, including the.NET Azure.Core package, which has over 3B downloads on NuGet, and the new System.ClientModel library. You can read about my work from the past few years on the Azure SDK Blog (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk), or the code I write on GitHub in the azure-sdk-for-net repo (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net).Before joining my current team I worked for almost a decade on AI developer platform and tools in Microsoft Research\'s MSR AI Lab including the precursor to the open source Platform for Situated Intelligence (https://github.com/microsoft/psi).

Experience

1. Principal Software Engineer, Azure Sdk

   Microsoft

   Aug 2019 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Tech lead for the Azure.Core.NET package, which has over 1.5B downloads on NuGet. With Krzysztof Cwalina, built System.ClientModel, a new core library for.NET clients that talk to cloud services. Drove developer engagement by writing blog posts about common Azure SDK client patterns. Shipped the first versions of Azure.Data.AppConfiguration, Azure.Containers.ContainerRegistry, Azure.AI.TextAnalytics, and Azure.AI.FormRecognizer packages.

Education

• Dartmouth College

  M.S., Computer Science, Robotics

  2004 — 2006

• Dartmouth College

  A.B., English, Engineering

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• C++
• Software Design
• C#
• .net
• Multithreading
• Distributed Systems
• Algorithms
• Software Development
• Python
• Web Services
• Computer Science
• Json
• System Architecture
• Visual Studio
• Agile Methodologies
• Object Oriented Design
• Machine Learning
• Scalability
• Software Engineering