James Finnigan

About James Finnigan

I\'ve worked in the Natural Language group, the Natural User Experience group at Microsoft working on next-generation applications (and how the concepts can be used in today\'s applications), the Windows User Experience\'s Core User Experience team, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, SQL Azure briefly, an updatable data classification client and recommendation server in PowerPivot, PowerMap and others, Power BI\'s data discovery features and in Azure Data Catalog. Engineering excellence and peer mentoring are passions of mine.My current work swings back towards the consumer space at Facebook.Specialties: Distributed systems, Information Retrieval, Enterprise Software, Windows Shell Extension Programming.NET, win32, c++, Windows Programming, Windows UI Programming, etc.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Meta

   Jan 2023 — Present

   Supporting the Friending Experience team in Facebook core growth

Education

• Brigham Young University

  BS in CS, Computer Science, Business, French

  1995 — 2001

Skills

• R
• C++
• C#
• Perl
• Win32
• Debugging
• .net
• Windows Programming
• Windows Azure
• Sql
• User Interface
• Windows
• Programming
• Com
• Powershell
• Distributed Systems
• Xaml
• Wmi
• Machine Learning
• Cloud Computing
• Xslt
• Win32 Api
• Virtualization
• C
• Visual Studio
• Software Development
• Object Oriented Design
• Software Engineering
• Agile Methodologies
• Scalability
• Multithreading
• Windbg
• Scrum
• Algorithms
• Web Services
• Rest
• Software Design
• Computer Science
• Enterprise Software
• Microsoft Azure