Kevin Durdle

About Kevin Durdle

I enjoy the intersection of complex org goals, engineering challenges and people. I’ve contributed directly to the success of multiple V0-1 products, from enterprise scale at AWS to seed-to-B stage startups, as well as growing the success of larger organizations.

Experience

1. Group Engineering Manager, Digital Trust & Safety

   Microsoft

   May 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Engineering leader responsible for Microsoft\'s response to Child Sexual Exploitation (CSEAI), Non-Consensual Intimate Images (NCII) & other harmful content categories. Highlights:+ Responsible for the Digital Trust & Safety engineering roadmap & vision, including product & service SLAs, KPIs, scale, etc.+ Oversee multiple engineering teams, with focuses on big data & data pipelines, SaaS feature APIs (large scale), moderator tooling, transparency reporting, and more.+ Owner of PhotoDNA, Microsofts 3P service for CSEAI detection & response

Education

• Western University

  BSc, Honors Software Engineering

  1999 — 2003

• Western University

  MSc, Software Engineering

  2003 — 2005

Skills

• Triage
• Hiring Practices
• People Management
• Cloud Computing
• Launch Operations
• C#
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Objective-C
• Perl
• Agile Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Object Oriented Design
• Product Launch
• Java
• Software Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• C++
• Mobile Applications
• Web Services
• Distributed Systems
• Xml
• Software Design